2017 Bean Trials

[Rancho Gordo Retail Advocate]

Hello my fellow bean buddies!

 It has been a while, but I have good news! We will be starting the 2017 Bean Trials. We’ll be sending a nice variety of beans for you to grow and let us know how it goes. We will need your full name and shipping address if you wish to participate. The deadline to participate is SATURDAY, April 15^th, 2017.

Important: 

We can only ship to U.S addresses

We will be shipping via USPS

Good luck!

The Bean Buddies

[jnl...@gmail.com]

Leslie Williams
25241 Dunvegan Square
South Riding VA 20152

[Amelia Porges]

Thank you!

Amy Porges 

900 N Ivy St

Arlington VA 22201-2200

[Kelli Puryear]

Kelli Puryear
PO Box 2205
Bloomfield, NJ 07003

Claudine Chiarmonte
90 Westover Avenue
West Caldwell, NJ 07006-7723

[Happy Dodson]

Yes, I would like to participate in the 2017 Bean Trials.  Thank you!

Karen "Happy" Dodson

17 Michael Drive

Luling LA 70070

[Cary Bradley]

Hello!  Excited to hear that Bean Buddies is starting for 2017.  Please include me:

Cary Bradley
307 NW Corner Road
N Stonington, CT 06359

Thanks!!!

[Tom Murphy]

I am going to email my address to custome...@ranchogordo.com. Will that be OK?

   ... Tom

[Matthew Daley]

Please include me in the 2017 Bean Trials:

Matt Daley

2536 Tilson Drive SE 

Atlanta, Georgia 30317

Thanks; I'm determined to improve upon my 2016 harvest of four beans!!

[Lisa LBC]

Lisa Bowens-Chapman. 2240 Union Road. Chapman IS 67431

[Amy Naranjo]

Can you please enable individual reply's instead of reply-all's to the group? If you don't know how to change the settings, here's how: https://support.google.com/groups/answer/1046523?hl=en

THANKS!

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Lisa Bowens-Chapman.          2240 Union Road.  Chapman IS 67431

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[Retail Inbox]

Thank you! We will add you to the list.

Best,
Ana

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Thank you! We will add you to the list.

Best,
Ana

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Thank you! We will add you to the list.

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Ana

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Thank you! We will add you to the list.

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Thank you! We will add you to the list.

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Ana

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[Jen Kobrick]

I would love to participate! 

Jen Kobrick

756 Tumblebrook Dr

Port Orange, FL 32127

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[Retail Inbox]

Thank you! We will add you to the list.

Best,
Ana

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[Retail Inbox]

Tom,

Or you can email to ret...@ranchogordo.com which ever you prefer.

Best,
Ana

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[C.Baxter]

Thank you!

Catherine Baxter

110 Kypuros Road

Eagle Pass, TX 78852

[Josephine Borgeson]

Thank you! 

Looking forward to another beany growing season.

Josephine Borgeson

458 Occidental Circle

Santa Rosa, CA 95401

[Kathy Cloutier]

Thank you!!!

Kathy Cloutier

9216 Lakewind Dr

Indianapolis, IN 46256

[Ryan Lower]

Yes! :)

Ryan Lower

403 Main St, Apt 619

San Francsico, CA

94105

[Jennifer Koivu]

Please add me as well - thank you!

Jennifer Koivu
109 Lori Court
Lexington, SC 29072

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Jordan Lowery

14740 peaceful valley rd

sonora, ca 

95370

thank you!

[Kelley]

I'd like to participate also.Thanks!

Kelley Wilkinson

848 Laughing Frog Ln.

Marshall, NC 28753

[Rancho Gordo Retail Advocate]

Hello,

Here is the list of people who were able to join the 2017 Bean Trials:

Christina Wenger

Leslie Williams

Amy Porges

Kelli Puryear

Kareb Dodsen

Cary Bradley

Amy Naranjo

Matt Daley

Lisa Bowens-Chapman

Kelley Wilkinson

Jen Kobrick

Tom Murphy

Catherine Baxter

Josephine Borgeson

Kathy Cloutier

Ryan Lower

Jennifer Koivu

Carrie Donley

Kris Bryant

Daniel Weisinger

Bryna Tuft c/o Danica Dolezal

Jordan Lowery

Kelley Wilkinson

Maureen Kilgore

Kelley Wilkinson

Thanks for participating! If you don't see your name on the list please let us know or send us a message to ret...@ranchogordo.com
Till next year my fellow bean buddies :)

[Tom Murphy]

Woo Hoo! Score!

Just got back from two weeks away from internet and phone to find bean goodness at my door: Ayocote Amarillo, Good Mother Stollard, Eye of the Goat, Lila, and San Franciscano. Great selection. 

My two 1980's beans didn't grow. They are going to need some magic. In meantime, they have provided sunny space for the 2017 Bean Trial beans.

Many thanks.

   ...  Tom

[Josephine Borgeson]

Hi Tom and others. Anyone know the growth habit of each of these? I did some research, but couldn't find the info on Lila and San Franciscano. Phina Borgeson

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[Tom Murphy]

This season, I am hoping to learn which of my bean just produce once and which keep going. I also hope to learn which shut off production when some pods are drying out and which don’t. My soil, earthworms and automated watering seem to ensure steady growth. I’d planted some Good Mother Stollards from 2014 that didn’t germinate in the weeks before we left, and low and behold, they are growing.

All my beans have some netting they can climb whether they need it or not. Many tendrils are already 4’ high, some climbing on the tomato cages, I had hoped were protected.

    … Tom

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Tom,

Thanks! Please feel free to send us photos of your lovely beans!

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[Matthew Daley]

Hello!  Thanks, Rancho Gordo, for doing these bean trials.  My beans have been in the ground almost two months, now, and I thought I’d give a report on how I planted them and how they’re doing. 

I'm in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.  I planted my beans along a fence in my backyard on May 28.  The fence runs North-South, so I guess the beans are facing East.  They get pretty full sun for most of the day.  And it's been raining a lot in Atlanta since I planted them (or at least it feels like it has been).  

Here's how I planted them:  

I dug up grapefruit-sized holes about three feet apart right near the base of the fence and did this for each hole:

• Filled with commercial garden soil
• Mixed in about 3+ Tbsp legume innoculant (from Amazon)
• Mixed in a bit of red clay (that’s what our yard soil is)
• Created a shallow indentation, put one type of beans inside (each envelope had ten beans, I think), and covered back with soil/innoculant mix
• Sprinkled more innoculant on top
• Watered so as to moisten all the new soil
• Covered dampened soil patch with dry soil
• After about a month or so, added some more innoculant to the soil around each set of bean plants, added a bit of garden soil, and covered the soil with mulch.

I try to water them most days when there's not a decent rain.  I’m not sure how much water I give them; I use a hose with a multi-setting nozzle, put it on the shower setting, hold the nozzle to the ground where the bean plants are coming out, and spray for maybe like 20 seconds, or I see water rivulets running downhill from the bean plants.

I put all my the 2017 Bean Trial photos I’ve taken so far into a Google Photos album.  My plan is to continue updating the album whenever I take new photos of the bean plants.  Here’s the link to the album (I think anyone with the link can see the photos and any updates I make to the album in the future):  https://photos.app.goo.gl/RiAPzr1g67rsfgO53

And here's the most recent photo in the album; I took it today (July 20, 2017).  From left to right, the plants are:  (1) Good Mother Stallard, (2) Lila, (3) Eye of the Goat, (4) San Franciscano, and (5) Ayocote Amarillo.

I welcome any comments or suggestions.  I don't have much (successful) gardening experience; any gardening decisions I make are based either on internet research or whatever strikes me as sensible at the time.

Matt Daley

East Lake, Atlanta, Georgia 

[Happy Dodson]

Your beans look healthy and vigorous -- good for you!  I very much enjoyed reading about your progress and seeing your photos.  

I wonder if your neighbor gets to pick the beans that mature on his side of the fence?  

Alas, I handicapped myself by falling (twice!) and having to allow healing time for my sprained hands and one foot.  I was making a new bed for my Bean Buddies beans but finishing that had to wait while I was/am healing.  I am much better and will be planting my beans this weekend, weather permitting.  I hope there's enough growing time remaining this year here near New Orleans for these varieties to produce a good crop.

Happy Dodson

Luling, Louisiana (near New Orleans)

 

      

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