2012 Beans

[steev]

Seeded my beans today for later transplanting:

Rochambeau
Rampicante Scozzose
Piatelle Toscane
Borlotto de Vigevano
Griggio di Tolmezzo
Bolgna
Corallo Romanesco
Merveille de Piemonte
Gold of Becau
Blauhilde
Pima Orange
Flor de Rio
Domatsu
Lazy Wife Greasy
Kew Blue
Dragon Tongue
Bobis D'Albenga
Comtesse de Chambord
Rattlesnake
Mayflower
Smeraldo
Sangre de Toros
Tamara
Tepehuan Star
Rosso di Lucca
Roc d'Or
Montalbano
Marconi Gold
Dall Occhio
Coco Bianco
True Red Cranberry
Dolloff

There will be others, especially cowpeas (not just Dall Occhio).

[potter]

Oh..goodie..another list..I like to read what other sow.. ;D ..it is bit like approved snooping.. ;D
I've got my seed picked out for this year and I'm just about to sow them, starting them in GH.
Gotlands white bean
Klosterbonne
Kjelms
Bergsgubben
Fiskerby
Swedish One Dot
Swedish Brown
Maxi
Cosse Violet
Jumbo Polish
Madeira Maroon
Climbing Pinto
Hutterite soup bean
Red Rum
Magpie
Purple Queen
Succotash
Gigantes
Rose Coco
'as long as your arm' runner bean
..and couple of other 'sports' that have previously popped up as climbing version of the bush bean.

[raymondo]

Love looking at other people's bean lists. Love beans, especially dry.
This year I'm hoping to sow the following (all Phaseolus vulgaris)

Dry bush:
Coco blanc nain
Hopi Black
Hutterite
Vermont Cranberry

Dry climber:
Calabrian Express
Cave Bean
Coco blanc à rames
Mandan Shield
Phénomène blanc

Snap bush:
Amethyst
Bountiful Butter
Dragon Tongue
Midori
Royal Burgundy
Sex Without Strings

Snap climber:
Calabrian Snowcap
Cherokee Trail of Tears
Muffet
Rattlesnake

I'll be growing other Phaseolus too but haven't looked at those yet.

[steev]

Raymondo, you punster! Sex Without Strings Snap bush, indeed!

[raymondo]

[jim]

Impressive lists....Im curious why you are transplanting them?
Jim

[olddog]

OMG, how on earth can you possibly keep track of all those beans?
More power to you all. Beautiful lists of beans.

[steev]

Many of those I have in little quantity, so I baby them to maximize sprouting and survival. Rodents, in particular, seem to love those tender bean sprouts. Once I've got a larger quantity of seed, I direct seed.

[steev]

Lord! What have I done? The beans have nearly all sprouted; now I have to deal with them.

[DarJones]

I'm growing:

1 row 120 ft long of Gigandes runner beans
1 row 120 ft long of Fortex pole beans
1 row 85 ft long of Old Time Pink & White lima beans
a partial row 20 ft long of canavalia Sword Beans
1 row 70 ft long of Zuni Red & Gold bush dry beans
1 row 70 ft long of Insuk's Wang Kong runner beans
1 row 60 ft long of Grandma Roberts Purple pole beans
a partial row 10 ft long of Red Swan bush beans

1 long row with 7 different varieties. These are to multiply seed enough to grow a large amount next year. Here are the varieties:
25 ft of Turkey Craw
25 ft of Black Jungle Butter Bean
25 ft of Emerite ( a few of these are purple from a bee made cross 2 years ago!)
25 ft of Mexican Black lima bean
25 ft of Pink Tip Greasy
10 ft of black seeded Meraviglia Venizia yellow wax bean
15 ft of Black Seeded Blue Lake beans

I also have a few seed planted of Vax-1 from ARS. These are to multiply seed and hopefully get a chance to cross breed with other varieties. Vax-1 has very high drought tolerance and several disease tolerance genes derived from the Phaseolus Acutifolius parent.

I have exactly 2 plants of Condorcita nuna bean. I planted every single seed that was sent to me by ARS, but only 2 of them grew. The seed were bad, I had to start them in trays with an "old and nearly dead" seed protocol.

I planted 25 ft of row of Striped Hull Greasy Cutshort. Only 1 seed germinated. The seed were only 4 years old. I will save seed from this one plant, it should make enough to recover the variety. If not, I can get plenty of seed from Bill Best.

DarJones

[mnjrutherford]

We've built a "room" for the wax corn using rattlesnake beans. I'm still pondering where to put the other beans....

[12540dumont]

Well, so far I have:
25' of Beurre d' Roquencourt
25' of S. Anna French Filets
25' of Strangenbohne Ilanz
25' of F/3 Resilient Bean Breeder
a very very short row of Fagioli di Toresio Garfagna (pole bean)
25' of Hannan Pop Beans
50' of Lupini Beans

I still have the Italian Heirloom Bean Trial to get in AND

All the blue beans
Bamberger Blaue Bohnen
Blue Shackmaxon
Blue Marbut

A few poles:
Harcot Soissons
Purgatorio
Polar Bear Mixed (LI)
New Mexico Bolitas
Tiger Beans

A few Bush
Red Swan
The Queen's Magic Beans
Cannellino Lucchese
I have to choose a few more...I'm waiting to see how much field there is.


Comtesse de Chambord (bush? short pole?)
Zolfino (bush or pole?)

Shall I tell you about the runners? OMG
I don't think I should. Maybe in a later post. I don't want you to think I've gone mad. (Stark? Raving?) Thank God Wolf Cub is going to plant a couple of them and send me some seed later, as I have my hands full. Hurray for beans.


So let's just skip to the Lens/Lentil:
These from the USDA:
Dupuy 486128 606609 615674 632632 298122 298121
And Baby Blue Lentil - which really looks green to me. This is my second year for this one.

I have two vignas, so I can only plant one, so I think I might plant the pink eyed purple ball.

Dar, what's the protocol for old beans?

[DarJones]

To germinate old beans, I prepare a 48 cell tray with seed start mix. Then mix 3 cups water with 1/2 teaspoon of miracle grow 15-30-15. Pour the water in the bottom of the tray so the seed start mix gets very damp but not soggy. Push 7 to 10 beans into each cell just barely enough to get the hilium into the soil mix leaving just the tip of the bean visible. The bean must be exposed to light and yet be deep enough in the mix to stay moist. Place the cell tray where temps can be maintained above 70 degrees F. As soon as any viable seed develop a root, they will push the seed out of the mix into the light where it can start growing. As soon as the beans show their first leaf, transplant them to a permanent garden location and spray them to prevent pests. This method has worked extremely well over the years. I planted Blue Greasy a few years ago with 2% germination in the garden, then put them in a cell tray as above and got over 50% germination, enough to get a crop of fresh seed. I did the same with Kilgore black pole bean which was so far gone that only 6 seed grew, but it was enough to save 1/2 pound of fresh seed. I also grew Barnes Mountain pole beans from seed that germinated less than 1% in the garden, but gave 70% in a cell tray. Old and weak bean seed will decay in the ground but they can be teased into growing under controlled conditions.

Comtesse de Chambord is a very short bush bean with weak stems. Hill dirt up on each side of the plants at least 4 inches deep to prevent them falling over.

DarJones

[12540dumont]

Thank you. Dan sent me some bean seeds and was going to send more just before he passed, so I want to get them in the ground this year. I have no idea how old they are.

[steev]

Started potting up beans today; Rochambeau and Tepehuan Star are the first; got to put up trellis next week-end, so I can plant pole beans out the week-end after.