2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

[Blue-Jay]

My next step is to figure out the Zonos app so I can get the network beans off to you @Blue-Jay. Cross your fingers for me please, my friend just tried to mail some peas to an SSE member and used the app with no success. She appealed for help but Zonos is so swamped right now they said they'd need at least 2 days to get back to her order. She is really tech savvy too, so now I'm really worried! I'm thinking I should wait to put it in the mail until you come back?

You can wait to mail beans here after I come back. I should be back late in the afternoon on December 18. Anyway I have my next door neighbor collecting my mail.

 

[Blue-Jay]

My next step is to figure out the Zonos app so I can get the network beans off to you @Blue-Jay. Cross your fingers for me please, my friend just tried to mail some peas to an SSE member and used the app with no success. She appealed for help but Zonos is so swamped right now they said they'd need at least 2 days to get back to her order. She is really tech savvy too, so now I'm really worried! I'm thinking I should wait to put it in the mail until you come back?

I wonder if you could send a small package like just one packet of Zinnia seed or something over the border just so you can practise on the Zonos app. Know anyone in Minnesota not far away? Is the Zonos app for mailing in Canada also?

What is the lowest cost postage you can do from Canada to the U.S.?

 

[heirloomgal]

I wonder if you could send a small package like just one packet of Zinnia seed or something over the border just so you can practise on the Zonos app. Know anyone in Minnesota not far away? Is the Zonos app for mailing in Canada also?

What is the lowest cost postage you can do from Canada to the U.S.?

I should clarify about what my friend experienced with Zonos, I don't want to give the impression she mailed the seeds and they didn't get there. I feel pretty sure that anything I mail will arrive okay. The problem is the Zonos app where you have to register your package for mailing, you have to input a lot of info and take a lot of steps. Once all info is put in, and they assess the value and you make the payment, Zonos issues you a scanning code. You can't go to a post office without that scanning code because the law is now that no shipments can be made with a Zonos scanning code. The post office can only begin to process the package for shipping once you're successfully scanned in.

After my friend plugged in all the info and made the proper payment the app just ended the session with no scanning code issued. So right now she is in the process of trying to get some help from the Zonos people on what happened, and where that code is because she's paid for it and is ready to ship. So it looks like the main issue is not so much whether it will arrive or not, it's about trying to navigate the app all the way to the other end. It's new and I'm sure there are still bugs to be worked out with it. I've come up with a plan for mine; I'm going to pay someone to help me. I know a guy who is really good at this stuff, and I'm going to throw him a couple bucks to get me through this, and most importantly, to help me make sure that if something goes wrong along the line he can deal with the Zonos people. All I can say is I hope this situation ends at some point! Not to worry @Blue-Jay, I think the beans will get to you fine, I just need to make my way through this app and then we'll be cookin with gas!

 

[flowerbug]

@Blue-Jay The resistance to BCMV is nice but the plants looked like they were more succeptible to some other things this season, could be bacterial or fungal diseases, i'm not sure what they were but it didn't look like it made that much difference and the plants were productive so overall i'd still call them worth growing.

since many of my plants have now been grown here for a dozen or more years they still look pretty beat up by the time the season is getting on, but they are survivors and productive enough that i think once i get some crosses showing up they should be some interesting beans with all the different seed coats. also since i don't grow any Anasazi beans any more they won't be confused with any other beans i grow if they have any of the seed coat traits.

of course, Purple Dove out crosses will be fun and appreciated. a PD and Anasazi patterned bean would look pretty darned interesting.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Not to worry @Blue-Jay, I think the beans will get to you fine, I just need to make my way through this app and then we'll be cookin with gas!

You can still input that the contents as used cassette tapes. Maybe waiting till I come back from Florida will give the Zonos people time to work out bugs with the software. I have been purchasing my postage the past 4 months on the U.S. postal website and the local U.S. postage is cheaper. I print out a shipping form and tape it to my shipment and it has a tracking number and barcode. All I do is drop it off at a certain counter at my post office and the folks just scan the bardcode and the package is in their system. With the overseas I still use my phony contents declartions. I get to print out one form to tape to my overseas package instead of having to fill out a 4 page form and taking to the retail counter. The single form has my package value, contents declartion, checked statement to return to sender if undeliverable. On their online form I input my name and address and the recipents name and address. It has a tracking number and barcode. It saves having to wait in line to get served by a postal clerk. Just leave the package on their counter without a postal clerk along with my local packages. Overseas postage is still the same even if purchased online.

 

[heirloomgal]

Ok I'm going to wait until your back to send the box. There will be a fair bit in there considering I'm sending back some of last year's network beans too. I will update you when I mail it. There are a couple network beans this year that I will need to regrow to send next year (4 I think), but all the re-growouts I did of last years network beans that still need to be sent were 100% successful.

Pink Tip Greasy is the only bean that I grew that I won't be able to return fully 60 seeds because it is just far too late for my climate. I'm not sure if you've grown it yet @Blue-Jay, but I suggest a head start in pots if not because it is extremely late flowering & reaching maturing. I started them in pots but it still wasn't sufficient, I harvested enough seed to send back the original number of seeds you sent me, but there were almost no forming beans in the pods I harvested. What few pods I got were mostly empty, I'm shocked I got even a few seeds. My apologies for that failure! I would say it's even later than Zugdidi Flat Cake, that's the latest network bean I've grown to date.

 

[heirloomgal]

Interestingly, my experience with Pink Tip Greasy was similar to my grow out with the 'Custodia' bean of Spain. Only Custodia was a little more successful in drying up a few mature pods. But still, this bean seems way too late for me. Like Pink Tip lots of the pods were simply empty, likely it was starting to get too cold by the time it started flowering. I didn't harvest much more than this handful. But what seeds I did get were really nice, Pink Tip not so much. I may try this one again, maybe not. It really is such a nice bean though, it's too bad it doesn't like my climate.

https://botiga.lesrefardes.coop/es/... un plato con la,Vilaró, Aguilar de Segarra).

'Blue Sword', what great bean. I got this from Spain, but it's very well suited to our seasonal length. Beans I get from Spain are funny that way - either quite early or quite late. This one is a fresh eating type, but I thought the seeds were kinda nice too. I don't think this one is originally from Spain though since it also goes by the names 'Butterbrodt' and 'Schwertbohne'.

This is a white seeded bean, I realized today I haven't shelled them because I had put them aside to take a photo first. These were rather impressive pods. They weren't all the same size, but most were like this.

The 'Ukrainian Pole' has gotten quite a bit darker already.

Got a nice crop of network bean 'Blaugraue' to send back this year. The beans are actually very smooth with nice seed coats, the low lighting we had when I took this makes them seem more rough than they are.