Wanigan Associates REVIVAL! photos of star beans added

[897tgigvib]

Howdy everyone!

BlueJay77, Russ Crow, has sent me an email saying yes, there can be a revival of the Wanigan Associates, starting right here in The Easy Garden Forum!
It will be very informal, and start off with 10 or 20 of his varieties. He would likely be putting the details of it on his webpage, and be low key, at least for awhile, not in magazines or news articles.

I for one think this is really great news! He'll post a Bean List sometime this week.

He described the Wanigan Associates history in the other thread

 

[baymule]

Whoo-Hoo!!!!!

 

[journey11]

 

[so lucky]

I'm looking forward to that. Maybe he, or you, could let us know when the list is up on his website?

 

[897tgigvib]

I'll be sending Russ some of these, and some others. (got to figure the postal methods up here)

and some others I don't think he has. The Blue/Gold came out of Capirame, which for me arrived as a mix from Native Seed Search a few years ago, and the one among them have diverged into several versions. The mostly white satin skinned Nova Stars with the almost powdered black markings came in 2 kinds. This is the darker of the 2. I would have a photo of the one with pale beige powdering, but my battery needed charging.
These would be my "outcrosses".

I also have selections to send him. Of the Late maturing stars.

 

[journey11]

Those are so pretty, I'd be tempted to make a pendant out of them. Seriously!

 

[897tgigvib]

Beans are used in jewelry! These particular ones need to be seed increased first though. They may be the only ones in the world, not sure. That is why I looked for an expert!

 

[Blue-Jay]

Hi Marshall those big beans look like Runner Beans. (Phaseolus Coccineus) When the germinate they leave their seed halves in the ground when the little seedling emerges from the soil. Do those do that? Larger flowers of red or white than most of the beans most people grow. Very pretty. Lookout.....Walmart might be placing an order for bean pendants and necklaces, then you'll have a new occupation outside of gardening! Then you'll be able to buy a tractor and combine and have some real big bean gardens. The little cream colored bean with a brown figure around the eye looks similar to a bean some Seed Saver Members grow called "Little Brown Cat", but it's probably something different. I would guess that it doesn't grow as a true upright bush plant. It's my understanding the Indians in the new world never had beans that was true bush in form. They had Pole beans and beans the would send out little runners and climb a little bit, or lay on the ground as a viney plant. The true bush forms of beans were brought back by European immigrants after early explorers had taken beans back with them and people either bred or selected them for the true bush form for several hundred years.

I'll post a list of the beans for our little bean network that anyone in EasyGarden can pick from to grow probably around the end of March sometime. I'll put that list on the thread that Marshall started called "A Wanigan Associate Will Be Joining Us Here" I think I might have that correct. I'll try to get a page up on my website also with a link at the top of each page called Bean Network. I will fully fund this bean network from my end sending out the beans the first year. This way people can get some new beans in their gardening repertoire cheaply and I'll get a very small increase and a few new refreshed seeds back in the fall.

 

[897tgigvib]

Thank you so much for doing that Russ!

I know those beans look like runner beans, but they aren't, at least not like any runner beans i ever grew. They aren't quite as large as the cropped photo makes them look. Medium large.



The Nova Stars with the dusting of black are a pole bean. They produce around second early, continue some, then stop, then make a few more at season end.

 

[897tgigvib]

These first ones I can't name what I did at first. I think they will be Brown Powder Star