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

[Artorius]

Beans 2025 continued

Laliberté - bush bean from Lothbinière, Quebec, Canada




Schwarze Kugel - semi-runner, old German variety, very prolific.




Little Falls - bush bean selected by @Blue-Jay. These types of beans grown in my location always produce seeds with more white color.




Paula - Robert Lobitz bush bean.

 

[Dahlia]

Beans 2025 continued

Laliberté - bush bean from Lothbinière, Quebec, Canada

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Schwarze Kugel - semi-runner, old German variety, very prolific.

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Little Falls - bush bean selected by @Blue-Jay. These types of beans grown in my location always produce seeds with more white color.

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Paula - Robert Lobitz bush bean.

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How many different bean varieties have you grown/eaten/collected so far?

 

[Blue-Jay]

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 6​

Bela Putersnica - Pole Dry. This bean did not do well this summer. I got some seeds where the colored area of the seed tended towards blue and some that tended toward the color tan.

Big Dipper - Pole Dry. This bean has grown well for me in previous years but not this past summer of 2025. This is an original named bean of mine. It's seed mother is a Canadian cross bean that is called Night Sky. Night Sky comes from the area around Blyth, Ontario.


Bela Putersnica - Pole Dry....................................Big Dipper - Pole Dry

 

[heirloomgal]

I guess you really do live in a climate that is considerably warmer than mine @Blue-Jay, to get the tan coloring. Mine were so blue, but Bela is a later maturing bean and we were getting cooler weather for sure in September. Illinois is probably still quite hot at that time. I sent a couple Blue & White of Bernardo seeds to a seed saving lady in Spain and I was so shocked that all her harvested seeds were as beige as a Turkey bean, not a molecule of blue on them. And the ones I had sent were super blue colored. It didn't look like the same bean whatsoever!

 

[heirloomgal]

Got a neat new bean called 'Jersey Pole'. Looks like a brown Vaquero. Planning to grow it this summer.

 

[Artorius]

How many different bean varieties have you grown/eaten/collected so far?

@Dahlia I think a few hundred, over 500 for sure. And yes, I realize I should get treatment

 

[Dahlia]

@Dahlia I think a few hundred, over 500 for sure. And yes, I realize I should get treatment

I think it's always super cool to see people get into various interests that make them happy and make for a more colorful world for all of us!