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).

ETA: The link Smart Gardener +1 goes right to the bean.

 

[flowerbug]

@Blue-Jay are you taking network seed returns yet?

i had some later network beans that had not fully dried down yet but they are probably all dried by now. so if you are taking returns again i can check them this week and get them sent back to you.

 

[Blue-Jay]

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:

One time I found a website that showed Potomac as a pole snap bean being released by some seed company in the 1940's. I would bet that would be the white seeded Potomac. I will try to find that site again when I get home and post the information.

Thank you @heirloomgal for your research and discovery of information about the black seeded Potomac. Great stuff.

 

[Blue-Jay]

i had some later network beans that had not fully dried down yet but they are probably all dried by now. so if you are taking returns again i can check them this week and get them sent back to you.

I have a neighbor collecting my mail while I'm gone. The last time I texted him there were 4 packages that had arrived somtime aroundthe middle of November. If you don't feel comfortable about sending packages now then I will be leaving Florida on December 13th and should be back home by the 16th.

 

[flowerbug]

...If you don't feel comfortable about sending packages now then I will be leaving Florida on December 13th and should be back home by the 16th.

thank you.

another week drying won't hurt them and might still be a good idea. with the furnace heat on now they should be dry enough either way.