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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 23, 2013 13:28:29 GMT -5
Today, I put in my first Dar Jones Patch:
Striped Hull Creasy Cutshort
Emerite - Haricot Vert - Vilamorin
Turkey Craw -Heirloom from VA, NC, and TN.
Only Dar could send me from the South to France and back to the South...
Thanks Dar!
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jun 12, 2013 7:03:14 GMT -5
I've been having fun with beans this year. I've got two 50 ft trellises planted into Dolloff. I'm eager to see how much they'll produce. I'd like to grow enough to make them part of our diet and I want to know how much area of trellis that will actually require. I'm also hoping to put up a row or two of New England style bean poles as described by extremegardener on her blog to compare the labor involved vs the trellises I made this year.
On another trellis I've got some trial pole beans and runner beans. Monaco Musso Niriu, Good Mother Stollard, Greasy Back Cornfield, Insuk's Wang Kong runnerbean, Volga German Siberian, and Smith's Vermont Cranberry. I've got the Insuk's interplanted between the common beans along the trellis in a small attempt to isolate the beans a bit. When the flint corn gets a bit taller I'm planning on planting Octarora Cornfield in there along with them. It's such a productive and well behaved cornfield bean.
For bush beans I've got good sized areas of Deppe's Resilient Bean Breeder F4 (I hope she decides on a better name soon), Kenearly Yellow Eye, Ireland Creek Annie's, and Brown Trout. I've also got small trial plantings of Johnson, Beka Brown, Mandan Black, Iroquois 6 Nations, Canario/Frijol Azufrado/Enola, Tuscarora Corn Bread, and Decker Family.
I also have a little trellis put up with the tepary bean comparison between Joseph's Blue Speckled and Mitla Black. Also a little tiny row of the Brown Trout cross beans which I'm very excited to see the results of. Looks to be a fun year in the bean world.
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Post by raymondo on Jun 12, 2013 7:22:23 GMT -5
...Deppe's Resilient Bean Breeder F4 (I hope she decides on a better name soon)... Given the early release of the material I'm sure she expects you to name your own selection. I grew some out last season but they are too small and fiddly for me. I do like the colour mix though. |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jun 12, 2013 9:04:18 GMT -5
... Deppe's Resilient Bean Breeder F4 (I hope she decides on a better name soon) In her 2013 seed list she called it: "BEEFY RESILIENT GREX bush dry bean". |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 20, 2013 22:07:51 GMT -5
I think I found a natural bean hybrid this summer. The grandmother and mother looked like the yellow beans. This year white beans showed up in the population. They were 13% of the harvest this year.  |
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Post by steev on Aug 20, 2013 23:50:06 GMT -5
Sweet to have such an obvious difference.
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Post by templeton on Aug 22, 2013 3:47:37 GMT -5
My bush beans seeds soaking - trying a bit of a growout in my greenhouse, stimulated by the germination of some random bean seed in my potting mix - must be warm enough! Two 'butter' beans ie yellow pods, Purple queen, red Swan, and a green, Don't have the variety that the US has  T PS - still can't attach pics - how is everyone else doing it? |
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Post by dustdevil on Aug 22, 2013 18:32:32 GMT -5
PS - still can't attach pics - how is everyone else doing it? There was an announcement by Joseph in the "Shoutbox" that the allotment for attachments is used up for this period. That probably is why it isn't working for you |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 22, 2013 19:30:20 GMT -5
Sorry that I haven't done anything to try to address the space limitation on the forum yet. I'm a junior moderator, so many of the built in tools to do these sorts of things are not available to me. It's that crazy time of year when I have more to harvest than I have time, ambition, or available helpers. It really sucks to commute between 6 different fields in 4 villages. Uuugh! So I actually have to plan: Hmmm... which crops to not harvest based on what is most likely to sell for the best return on investment at market, or what I might could postpone for a day or two and sell in bulk.
On a good note... I just found out today that I forgot to harvest the grapes. They should have been harvested a week or two ago. Ooops. They'll taste really sweet, but too many have fallen on the ground. At least I'll pay attention now to the next crop of grapes. So today's anxiety was trying to figure out how to add harvesting grapes into the already overloaded schedule, and find/clean all the grape harvesting paraphernalia on short notice. I'm still unsettled about it.
Pictures that are currently being added to the forum are hosted on other web sites (Photobucket, Flicker, Picasa, personal blogs, etc), and are linked into the forum inside [ IMG][ /IMG] tags (remove the spaces). I recommend a size no more than 640 pixels wide for linked photos.
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Post by steev on Aug 23, 2013 0:01:56 GMT -5
I'm really sorry that your grapes aren't in your schedule; life is like that.
Dude! My commute is 2 1/2 hours weekly, to the farm, each way. Sweet-corn? Sheeee, I'm lucky my melons are acceptable.
I need a pig, or a refridgerated truck; I'd prefer a pig, actually.
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Post by DarJones on Aug 23, 2013 3:14:39 GMT -5
why not a 'refrigerated pig'?
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Post by steev on Aug 23, 2013 11:46:48 GMT -5
When I get a pig, it will be refrigerated until it goes to the smoker.
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Post by thaines on Aug 24, 2013 16:42:16 GMT -5
I am very new to this site and I am trying to learn about Gigantes beans. What I would like to find out is how are these beans cultivated?
Q - How tall are the trellises?
Q - Does any-one have a photo or directions on constructing the trellises?
Q - How many seeds/plants are planted arround each trellis leg?
Q - Seed/plant spacing?
Q - How long is the growing season for these beans?
Q - Do these beans like wet or dry soils?
Q - Is there a web site you could recoment that would give me advice on growing these beans?
I live in the Ozarks of the state of Missouri in the USA. Elevation 1,200 Ft. My USDA hardiness zone is Zone 6A (-10F to -5F). Average first frost Oct.11-20. Average last frost April 21-31. We are about the same Latitude as Athens, GR.
My Email is - 19ranger84@gmail.com
Any help you can give would be great.
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Post by zeedman on Aug 25, 2013 2:36:39 GMT -5
Thaines, there was a good discussion about Gigandes on another site. Email sent.
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Post by robertb on Aug 29, 2013 14:06:16 GMT -5
Grow them like runner beans. It's what they are, after all. They need a bit of extra warmth compared to the other types to get them going. I've tried them before and failed, but I'm inclined to try again.
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