XPost: rec.gardens.organic   
   From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   Gary Woods wrote:   
   > Followups set to rec.gardens.edible, rec.gardens.organic   
   > On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 15:18:32 -0500, songbird    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> Russell Crow of A Bean Collectors Window website is a bean   
   >>friend of mine.  he runs a network of growers from a   
   >>subcollection of his and i've enjoyed trading beans with him   
   >>and growing some beans for him too.  i'll be doing it again   
   >>this season.   
   >   
   > I've seen Russell several times at the SSE summer "campout." The last   
   > few years, I camped at a motel in Decorah.   
   > Got several beans from him, including "Cherokee Trail of Tears," which   
   > makes kudzu look anemic!   
      
     we've talked on the phone a few times and i met him about   
   two years ago at our local regional seed swap.  sadly that is   
   not happening this year.  i hope to see him again sometime.  :)   
   bean friends are always good to see.  the problem with a seed   
   swap is that once it gets going it is often very busy and there   
   isn't too much time to talk or look through things we've   
   brought.   
      
     i am not into pole beans but i'm familiar with that name   
   and i have grown some pole beans in the past that were over   
   the top of the fence by the 4th of July (even in our rather   
   poor soil).  that is impressive.  :)   
      
     last year i only grew a few pole beans of one variety and   
   it wasn't a stable one so i didn't get back the beans i was   
   hoping for.   
      
     the year before i grew out a lot of pole beans and had   
   some return but we got frosted in September 15th and so much   
   of the beans that were plump but not dried down were ruined.   
   i just can't afford to do too many beans like that and won't   
   do it again.  a lot of work for not much return.  instead   
   what i work on here myself and for my own collection and   
   growing are earlier season bush beans so that they are   
   mostly done by mid-September.  that's my cut-off date.  any-   
   thing that goes longer than that isn't my primary focus at   
   all.  just experimental or i'm selecting and hoping for   
   earlier crosses which keep the same seed coat pattern and   
   other desired traits.  :)  i get a few beans here or there   
   that fit my needs and that is fun and why i keep doing it.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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