2026 Little Easy Bean Network – Plant A Garden, Water Your Soul, Join Our Family

[Blue-Jay]

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 2
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Alice Sunshine hadn't been grown since 2025. Grown in my backyard plot it did very well and produced some of the nicest seed of the bean I had grown. Approximately 20 plants produce 1 pound 1.55 ounces (497 g). This is one of Robert Lobitz's green snap beans.

Anakin Kuvali Giant produced a nice quality of seed growing about 5 feet tall (a little less than two meters). 8 plants produced 14.65 ounces (415 g). Large seeded bean brought back from Europe by Joseph Simcox


Alice Sunshine - Bush Snap....................................Anakin Kuvali Giant - Pole Dry

 

[Blue-Jay]

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 2
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Appaloosa - Bush Dry. Having last grown this bean in 2021 I originally obtained the bean from Full Circle Seeds in BC Canada in 2012. Considering the growing season this year. the bean didn't do too badly. It produced 12.30 ounces of seed from about 13 plants (348 g).

Apple Creek - Bush Green Snap. Not a lot of seed from this bean as it was grown in place in my backyeard that doesn't get a lot of hours of direct sunlight. The bean orignally came from one of the seed packets of outcrossed seed from Will Bonsall in 2015. The seed I grew to get Apple Creek was a semi runner with a bluish seed mottled with tan. Since progressive grow outs in 2017, 2018 and 2025 I have not seen any off types in Apple Creek. The bean did produce nice quality seed this past season.


Apple Creek - Bush Green Snap..........................Appaloosa - Bush Dry

 

[Blue-Jay]

Zilie Hameleoni - bush bean from Krimulda, Vidzeme (Livonia) region, Latvia

That bean raises a big Wow in me! What a beauty. Very similar to Bomba but much richer stronger color. I have been told somewhere along the way that there are a lot of interesting beans in Latvia.

 

[heirloomgal]

I agree, that bean is staggeringly pretty. I need to start vacationing in Latvia if this is what their beans are like!

 

[flowerbug]

I agree, that bean is staggeringly pretty. I need to start vacationing in Latvia if this is what their beans are like!

@Artorius 's bean and breakfast wayside retreat for the bean afficionado...

 

[Artorius]

oh is that a nice range of colors and shape.

and a bush bean!

does it work for snaps/fresh beans?

@flowerbug
I don't know, I have not eaten the pods. I wanted to increase the seed count because I will probably send out quite a few. In Latvia, this bean is used as dried seeds, but the young pods may be edible.

 

[Artorius]

I took these Zilie Hameleoni photos on a cloudy day, which is why the seeds are bluer. In the sun the green color is more visible. Hence the name, Blue Chameleons.