Legumes for planting in 2026 by Fasol

[Fasol]

Hello everyone! I’m Konstantin, and I hail from a small ethnic republic within Russia. My specialty is agricultural science. This year, I will be planting part of my collection of various legume crops, featuring more than 300 varieties. The collection mainly includes common beans, peas, soybeans, and broad beans, as well as some crops non-traditional to our region.

I plan to post my observations on legume cultivation here, hoping to find a response among fellow enthusiasts. I am multilingual, but English is not among the languages I speak. Thankfully, neural network-based translators are erasing language barriers.

Wishing everyone a great harvest this season!

 

[Fasol]

The list of legume varieties for the 2026 planting season is available via the link below (in English): https://disk.yandex.ru/d/2eoQCAsgnNn6Pw

 

[Decoy1]

Welcome Fasol. That sounds like a great collection. It will be very interesting to follow your progress this season. Can you say a bit about your growing conditions to set the scene?

For me, the grid of beans was too blurred to see the names. Are they in Cyrillic script? If you can find a way of posting the grid so that the beans show up well that would be great.

 

[oxbow farm]

Hello Konstantin,

Very interested to see more of your collection. There are lots of bean enthusiasts here on easygarden. Are many of your collected varieties native ones from Chuvashia?

I myself am expanding the variety of dry legumes I grow, trying to figure out the best/highest yeilding ones for my climate in case I or my family should need them to feed ourselves given these uncertain times. I've found that for me, broad beans (favas), lentils, garbanzo beans (chickpeas) just do not grow well here and yield very minimally. I'm still experimenting more with peanuts and pigeon peas.

Soup peas grow very well for me here, as do common beans, cowpeas, and soybeans.

 

[flowerbug]

welcome to TEG from mid-Michigan.

 

[Fasol]

Welcome Fasol. That sounds like a great collection. It will be very interesting to follow your progress this season. Can you say a bit about your growing conditions to set the scene?

For me, the grid of beans was too blurred to see the names. Are they in Cyrillic script? If you can find a way of posting the grid so that the beans show up well that would be great.

I’ll try to find a way to take photos of all the varieties with labels in a non-Cyrillic script
For varieties obtained from abroad, I keep the original names, as they often spread across the country under different names due to translation issues.
Translating Russian variety names can be quite difficult. For example, a name might come from an abbreviation of a surname or a local place name. I’ve updated the link to the collection catalog in the message above — it’s now in English and includes the original Russian names to avoid any confusion

 

[Fasol]

Test photo featuring several Lima bean varieties to be planted this season

 

[Fasol]

Bush beans. Part #1

 

[Fasol]

Bush beans. Part #2

Seeds of these varieties from the 2024 harvest were grown using the latest fertilizers. Their size is significantly larger than under normal growing conditions. For comparison, I’ve placed two of the world's most popular varieties on the right.

 

[Joao]

300 varieties is seriously impressive. Looking forward to following this, especially the lima beans. Do you find much difference in how the varieties perform year to year with your climate, or are most of them fairly consistent once established?