New - Fresh & Dried Bean Varieties

[Guest]

DFB - Alice Sunshine

The beans are soooooooo pretty. I am a sucker for pretty beans.

Dual purpose: 50 days to first snaps, 80 days for the start of dry seed production. 20" tall plants (mine were no where near that) upright in growth without runners. Blossom white. Good yields of 6-8" green, sweet, crunchy pods. Developed and named by the late Robert Lobitz of Paynesville, Minnesota.

(From G.Bohl's PSA, saved by Nellie-m 2014 and I am currently trying to save the variety)

[Scarlet]

That is exactly the same as red soldier bean.....maybe the same but with another name?

[Guest]

That is exactly the same as red soldier bean.....maybe the same but with another name?

I think Nun's Belly Button is red soldier bean I will post that later. Alice Sunshine is yellow and brown I will add a pic of the aged beans - hopefully they will photograph well.

[Scarlet]

Meuch - CB

This is also quite a vigorous grower. Plenty of pods set this year.
Shorter than the Weilander but also has around 6 or so beans to a pod. I've found very little info on this one but I've grown it a few time as it gives plenty of beans and usually dries well before the frosts but these are a long way off this year. Fingers crossed.

Pretty green pods heavily mottled with dark purple almost black markings.

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[Scarlet]

I believe The belly button one is also knowm as red soldier ( I grew both) and that Alice one looks exactly the same.

[mcdood]

I think Nun's Belly Button is red soldier

A nun's belly button and a red soldier, easy mistake to make.

[Scarlet]

Rattlesnake - CB

This is a climbing bean with slim long green pods with some purple streaks. Maybe about 6inches long with about six beans per pod.
This is a dual purpose bean and can be eaten fresh and also dried. A pretty bean with brown speckled markings.

[Scarlet]

Cherokee Trail of Tears - CFB

"Also known as Cherokee Black, the variety is good as both a snap and a dry bean; when mature, the greenish-purple 6” pods encase shiny jet-black seeds. This bean was shared with Seed Savers Exchange by the late Dr. John Wyche of Hugo, Oklahoma. His Cherokee ancestors carried this bean over the Trail of Tears, the infamous winter death march from the Smoky Mountains to Oklahoma (1838-39) that left a trail of 4,000 graves"

*info taken from here: https://www.seedsavers.org/cherokee-trail-of-tears-bean ( I love a good story! )

I grow these most years. A really prolific bean and quick to set pods. Most of these have dried already. About 8 beans per pod...photo taken today shows they are much earlier than some of the other drying varieties so may be a good option for grapes up North?

[veggiechicken]

Borlotti - exact name N/K



Grew these last year - very productive and pretty.
I ate them as a fresh bean, pods and all, and when I couldn't keep up with the eating, left the rest to dry.
This year, has not been a good year for climbing beans for me and the plants stalled and gave up the ghost.

I'll try them again next year.

[Guest]

DFB - various Soldier Beans

Alice Sunshine - A yellow bean with a smudgy brown (doesn't show very well in the picture)soldier and also some brown mottling to the bean.

Nun's Belly Button (which I believe is aka Red Soldier Bean) - A white bean with a defined red soldier and a white belly button

Blanche - A white bean with a defined black soldier.



(I will try and take a better picture at some point with natural light)

[burnie]

Do you have to grow Borlottis under glass VC?

[Guest]

DFB - Tiefenbacher

Beautiful dark red (I would say brown) seeds that resemble "Canadian Wonder" - but this bean's pods are yellow! Can be grown for its pods or for the seeds. Good yield from a healthy and bushy plant.

(From G.Bohl's PSA, saved by Nellie-m a while a go and I am currently trying to save the variety)



The black bean is for colour comparison

[veggiechicken]

Do you have to grow Borlottis under glass VC?

They're not under glass. I use unglazed GH frames as supports for beans.

[muckdiva]

Beautiful dark red (I would say brown) seeds that resemble "Canadian Wonder" - but this bean's pods are yellow! Can be grown for its pods or for the seeds. Good yield from a healthy and bushy plant.

(From G.Bohl's PSA, saved by Nellie-m a while a go and I am currently trying to save the variety)

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The black bean is for colour comparison

This one reminds me of my mum who was German. She worked as a tailor in her youth and one of her customers was called Frau Tiefenbacher.

[Scarlet]

Black Knight

"A black-seeded variety donated by GH Callaghan of Leicester, who has saved and shared seed of this variety since the early 1960s. He describes it as “a lovely, fleshy bean of good length and quality.” Stringless when picked."

#Info taken from the HSL website :https://hsl.gardenorganic.org.uk/see...n/black-knight

I think I got the initial seeds of these from VC?
I have grown them for several years on and off, I always worry about them crossing but they haven't seemed to yet. I grow them in a different area to any other veg. They aren't very prolific, nothing fancy but I'm a sucker for a black bean. 5 or 6 beans to a pod.
If you are only growing one runner - this isn't the bean for you. I just grow it for fun to be honest I find it goes "leathery" very quick.

Some pods already dry this year....plants were rubbish compared to my "polestar" runners.