Today’s post was written by Ed Ammons.
On March 25th I did a guest post about some brown beans that appeared among the offspring of some greasy beans that Tipper sent me to try. Read it here if you haven’t already.
Last year I started with 21 of them and after some unusual weather events ended up with one plant. That one plant produced more than enough to plant all I needed this Spring. Earlier this month I planted two 32 foot long rows (I have a small garden). My daughter Missy dropped and covered the seed for the first row. I asked her to count the beans as she planted them so I could calculate the germination rate. She said she planted 77 beans but after they were up and growing I counted 78, then found one more later. That’s either 102% or bad math but either way I am tickled with the outcome.
The row on the left are the ones Missy planted. The row on the right I planted about a week or so later. They germinated well too!
Now the first row is blooming!
What is that color? If it ain’t in a basic Crayola box I don’t know it by name.
Note the color of the vine. It has a darker purplish hue. It was the vines that helped me identify the original plant in the beginning.
I’ll be back with another Tipper bean update when they start to produce if you are
interested.
Ed
The beans Ed sent me back are growing good for us and have beans on them. The blooms look just like Ed’s but I don’t see any dark vines. When the they get a little bigger I will see what color the beans are.
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Tipper
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Those are sure some pretty purple blossoms! Enjoyed the post, Ed!
Great update Ed & Tipper ! So fun ! Happy to hear that they are growing well . Those blossoms are beautiful! We’ll stay tuned for the outcome 🙂
Hmmmm so Mr. Ammons, do you have a “new” bean, a natural cross with another unknown bean? Sounds like maybe you do. I wonder if somebody deliberately planted two different kinds in the same or adjacent rows would the seed be a natural cross for many of them. There must be a reason there are so many different beans.
Dear Miss Tipper, Y’all’s beans are beautiful. What small patch we did of bush beans, in our small raised garden, were totally consumed be our sweet wild rabbits. Dagnabit. I think maybe deer too. LOL
My Mississippi Purple Hull peas looked like Ed’s beans until a week ago, thanks to deer they now look like they were run over with a lawnmower.
Beans are self-pollinating so it takes some effort to cross pollination them. According to what I have read it is uncommon in nature. There have been no other beans planted nearby here that I have seen. I planted the greasy beans Tipper provided and no others. I found a vine (maybe two) that produced beans that were color differently than those I planted. The pod looked like the mother beans except the string had that purplish color which carried on to the stem.
It’s the mature seeds that are brown.
There are 25 acres of soybeans about 100 yards from my garden but I don’t think they will cross with any kind green bean (not the same genus).
Nothing so sweet as being gifted with plants that have been passed down from previous loved ones, especially if they were grown on the old home place:) Your garden looks beautiful but please be sure you check it out for those old snakes. I guess I was warned about them so much when I was little that if I lived in your area, especially by a stream, it would be tough to let little ones play out by themselves. God bless and keep ya all!
Those vines sure look healthy with their pretty lavender blooms. Mom raised brown beans; she called them fall beans even though they were planted in the spring with the other beans and produced in July, just like the greasy and half-runner beans. I went to my garden to gather zucchini and cucumbers yesterday evening and was horrified to see the tops had been eaten off all my green beans and the ends of all my melon vines. I suspect it was one of the hundred groundhogs that live in my barn. My worthless dog needs to earn her keep!
Enjoyed Ed’s post!
Ed did a good job updating about the beans. They look beautiful in the picture. Looking forward to seeing another update from him once they produce.
Those are very pretty bean flowers! I might call the color lilac. Our beans are flowering bright red and it’s our favorite in the garden right now.
I gathered and ate my first fig yesterday. The bush is loaded.
Well the blossoms are pretty.
Lovely beans!
Those look like a knuckle hull purple hull pea we planted. It produces a creamy white pea and tastes more like a cow pea. We realized that we prefer the top pick Mississippi pink eyed pea. They grow better for us in our raised beds, stay bushier and don’t climb so we don’t have to trellis, easier to harvest and more flavorful Happy gardening
The stems do look like pea vines however the beans themselves are milk chocolate to dark chocolate color.
The pictures Ed sent look like beautiful plants. Glad you both are having good luck with them so far. I will be looking forward to pictures of the beans themselves and what color they are.
Pretty bean patch.
This is not about the brown beans, but about Ed and Tipper’s gardens. I am jealous. In the past years I had a chance of having pretty gardens and growing beans, peas, okree and other things. Nowadays because of my health, the hot dry weather each summer and especially the DEER, it now seems impossible. I wrote yesterday about getting very little rain since Memorial Day, I did get a little yesterday, it might have been enough enough to settle the dust. This morning’s forecast- heating up and dry for the next 7 days. Last night there was a flood warning for several areas near me, there had been 1-2 inches of rain in some areas where a lot of housing subdivisions have been built. Imagine having a flood problem because of getting only 1-2 inches of rain over a period of several hours. Seems many of today’s people don’t understand, asphalt and cement don’t soak up water, it all runs into the creeks, any dirt farmer can tell you that, you don’t need to be a brain surgeon to understand. I must have woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.