Seed Saving Circle 2025

[ruud]

https://tohumbaba.com/urun/fasulye-seker-fasulye/ did you find this side.

[JanG]

https://tohumbaba.com/urun/fasulye-seker-fasulye/ did you find this side.

Is that the same bean, Ruud? It has a different name

[ruud]

I have also beans with that naam,maybe the same bean with a different name.

[JanG]

Gialèt della Val Belluna Another prolific producer. I loved this bean. It is adopted by the Slow Food Foundation and was originally specific to the Belluna valley in northern Italy. It is valued for its gently flavour as a dried bean but it is also very satisfying to shell for fresh light yellow-green shelled beans. If you remove the string the pod falls open satisfyingly for shelling. I received these originally several years ago in a swap with an Italian grower. It also goes under the name Solferino.


Papa de Rola. Another good producer which can be used for green beans as well as dried. My seeds came in a swap with a Canadian grower.


Paul Bunyan Giant. This produces large flat pods up to about 10-12" long with slightly flattened seeds in side them. Although pods are very large there aren't that many of them but overall satisfyingly productive. Another Canadian swap. It was originally obtained by Russ Crow from a New Zealand Bean Project.

[JanG]

Dwarf

Resistant Cherokee Wax. A heavy producer of wax snap beans and black dried beans. Another variety from a Canadian grower. It's resistant to mosaic virus and grows vigorously for a dwarf variety. Introduced in 1959

Dakota Bumble This is grown for dried beans. I've included it because it's so pretty. It has three different sed coat pattern, either black, white or white splashed with black. It was apparently an insect pollinated cross of Jacob's Cattle offered originally by  Prairie Road Seeds in US.


Poroto Huancabamba . Another dried bean variety with an intriguing name and unusually patterned seeds, deep pink with a white splash. Apparently Huancabamba is in northern Peru and poroto is the Spanish word for bean. My Canadian grower obtained it from an American grower.

Semi

Ugandan Bantu. This is another mixture, this time of seven or eight rather random colours, patterns and sizes, making a very attractive mix. The plants grow to perhaps a metre and twine a little,  so benefit from some support. I haven't been able to find out how long this particular mixture, presumably coming from the Bantu speaking people of Uganda, has been commercially available. It is offered by the Heritage Seed Bank in US who describe it as a landrace.

[ruud]

https://biotektohum.com.tr/tohum/alman-ayse-sirik/ this is one of the beans i bought on the market in turkey.The right name is alman ayse.