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Post by Tucson Grower on Nov 17, 2021 18:46:36 GMT -6
They're called carpenter bees, they are well known for causing that kind of problem.
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Post by hmoosek on Nov 18, 2021 17:20:27 GMT -6
Remember how I said I had enough beans to sink a battleship? I somehow managed to get more. I’m not sure exactly how it happened, but I now have 4 more varieties headed my way. One of an off type of Draper’s Glen which is an off type of a bean called Marico. I collected history on both Marico and Draper’s Glen. It’s a Semi Runner.
The other three are Greasy beans from Kentucky. Anytime I can get a hold of a greasy bean, I’ll make room for it. These are coming from the same lady that sent me her family’s brown greasy last year.
One is simply called white greasy One is partridge head One is Kentucky Striped Brown Greasy
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Post by macmex on Nov 18, 2021 19:37:04 GMT -6
Sounds great Moose! I think there is a huge amount of diversity under the term "white greasy." The one I grow came from an eBay vendor in KY and has a bit of diversity itself.
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Post by hmoosek on Nov 18, 2021 19:44:51 GMT -6
Sounds great Moose! I think there is a huge amount of diversity under the term "white greasy." The one I grow came from an eBay vendor in KY and has a bit of diversity itself. Was it Kitty?
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Post by macmex on Nov 25, 2021 18:38:24 GMT -6
Oops, sorry I missed your question until now, Moose. No, I think I got my seed from a guy. I'd have to look it up.
Today (Thanksgiving) I took time to harvest my Frank Barnett bean seed. I had already pulled one pole and placed it in a shed, where it wouldn't freeze but the majority of my plants were on a cattle panel. I just left them where they were and they dried down very well. Here's a picture of just a small spot on that cattle panel.
I picked over a gallon of dried pods. Perhaps this evening I'll shell out the dry seed. This bean is so very nice! My biggest "complaint" with Sustainable Mountain Agriculture is that they have so many wonderful beans I will NEVER be able to scratch the surface, trying them all.
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Post by macmex on Nov 26, 2021 11:13:50 GMT -6
Last night our family sat and watched a documentary on our big screen. I shelled Frank Barnett Cutshort seed while we watched. All the pods were dry and easy to shell. Considering the rough start I had with this bean, this season, the seed harvest was pretty good. Still have to shell the seed on the one pole I brought under cover. When I do, we should have about 1 1/2 quart of seed.
This is one really nice bean! It's on pare with Tennessee Cutshort as a snap/string bean. Growth habit is about the same. It crams nearly twice the seed into the same space in a pod as Tennessee Cutshort.
Here's a picture of what the seed looks like in the pod. Some pods had as many as 8 seed.
A bean is considered a cutshort when the seed is so closely packed in the pod that it causes squared ends. Frank Barnett is definitely in that category. In fact, the whole reason I have this seed is that, years ago, I had a conversation (via email) with Bill Best, specifically about Tennessee Cutshort. You see That's the name it had when my wife's family received the seed. We didn't make it up. Yet, technically, Tennessee Cutshort is not a cutshort. The seed isn't crammed in like that. Bill Best explained to me that there were some areas in which the term cutshort had come to be used for cornfield beans like Tennessee Cutshort, in spite of the lack of cutshort features. He even postulated that Tennessee Cutshort might originally have been a true cutshort, and that one of the folk who kept and selected seed for some time had selected away from the crammed seed. And... he sent me a packet of Frank Barnett, so I could see the difference.
At one point I started selecting my Tennessee Cutshort seed for more seed to the pod and found it wasn't hard to do, but I stopped when I saw that it was beginning to very much resemble Frank Barnett.
Here's a photo of the seed I shelled last night (Frank Barnett).
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Post by hmoosek on Aug 4, 2022 19:39:44 GMT -6
Bean Babies!!!
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