Rouge de Paris teetotal bush bean from William Woys Weaver
The preceding 2 age , I ’ve been growing out some uncommon vegetable seed varieties from William Woys Weaver ( I call him W3 ) , who has collected many rare seminal fluid over the geezerhood . Last year for him I grew rare cowpeas but this year I chose beans . This is in gain to my regular tomatoes , zukes , winter squash , cauliflower , chard , beets radishes , cukes and peppers and unlike varieties of berries / grapes .Good thing I have a BIG garden !
W3 wants his agriculturalist to grow out come that are getting previous to keep the varietiesviable . He sent some seeds , you ca n’t even come up online . So this year I ’m growingLandreth’sbush bonce , Six Nationsbush bean , other Mohawkbush attic , Rouge de Parisbush dome , Wild Pigeonsemi - celestial pole bean . All of dissertation are teetotal beans . I am also growing one cowpea , Big Red Zipper , a pole cowpea ( intend black eye peas as we call them in the US ) which has long cod with 8 - 10 bombastic red cow peas that are so beautiful .
Rouge de Paris dry bush bean from William Woys Weaver
The only seeds that did not germinate well was theLandreth ’s bean , where only 6 industrial plant shoot out of 30 . The come I obtain for Landreth ’s bean was 6 years honest-to-god , so it is getting up there in geezerhood so I wo n’t get a lot but he will get whatever I get in the end . This is a good deterrent example to start saving your seed ! I am also allowed to keep some of each variety as well if I want .
In addition , I am growing out my friend , Lava Ewersmeyer’s , Garrofon Pintatpole butter bean which hails from Spain andBuschbonne Cannolino Rossobush noggin from Germany - both are beautiful clean with red splash . Lava lives in Berlin and here in Santa Fe , enjoying duel citizenship . Lava also gave me seed for theLava Red pepper ( aCorno de Hornovariety ) andRuthjecherry tomato , both are outstanding which I grow each class as well . Thanks Lava !
Growing new varieties of seed I ’ve never tried before keeps me concerned in horticulture and I am economize seed that might otherwise go out which is crucial . Hopefully some will be fantastic ! I really like noodle seeds as so many of them are really beautiful .
Oh and I am growing one gullible bean for sweet - eat - Emeritepole noggin which is a gourmet french fillet bean that you could get in the US . I just have to keep up on picking them as if you countenance them get freehanded than a pencil breadth , the skins get woody . So I pluck often when they are ready ( which they are not yet ) .
