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

[heirloomgal]

Yes PM ME the link.

I sent it yesterday, did it not show up at your end?

 

[Blue-Jay]

all I know is she had the name 'Salome's Treasure' in the caption and that was all. Do you want me to PM you a link?

The link didn't show up in messages. Try emailing the link.

 

[heirloomgal]

The link didn't show up in messages. Try emailing the link.

I sent you an email instead.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Thank you @heirloomgal . The link didn't make me login.

 

[heirloomgal]

I found an interesting tidbit about one of my network bean returns this year @Blue-Jay; the 'Potomac' bean I grew it turns out is not the one offered at Victory Seed Company. I checked all around, and Chat GPT confirmed that there are 2 separate varieties of it. That one is actually white seeded, while network Potomac is black seeded. This is the info I turned up:

• According to growers who maintain the variety, “Potomac” dates from the Virginia side of the Potomac River sometime before 1860. Smart Gardener+1
• After the American Civil War, it is reported that the bean was carried west by the Barley family to Tehama County, California — where it continued to be grown for “over 125 years.” Smart Gardener+1
• The variety was formally “introduced” (at least in modern seed-exchange catalogues) in 1990 by Southern Exposure Seed Exchange (SESE). Smart Gardener+1

So while its roots trace back to pre-1860 Virginia, its rediscovery and formal reintroduction into the heirloom-seed market is fairly recent (1990).