2024 Dry Bean Harvest

The 2024 harvest is now in the books.  Since She Who Must Be Obeyed wanted to weigh the beans in the end to see how things went, so I thought I'd attempt to document it.

We had a total of 11 varieties.  The heirloom seed company I purchase from tends to add a free packet on larger orders based on what you ordered.  The first year it was a tomato.  This year it was a bean.  Our average frost-free period is 115 days and frost-free doesn't mean warm enough to plant beans so my primary selection is based on time to harvest and my secondary selection is based more on appearance - that is, fun-looking beans.

The last of the pods dried and we put everything together.  Out of curiosity, she wanted to know how much we harvested based on how much was planted - some of the packets were 25 seeds and most were 50.  This morning we had a weigh-in, which then led to me working on a spreadsheet (it isn't like there aren't a bunch of other things that should be a higher priority for my time - in my defence, I did clean and slice a bunch of tomatoes this morning and got the dehydrators going)...rabbit holes R us.

I took over the weighing after she struggled with hitting the wrong button to tare the scale and turning it off instead.

I was wondering if you would be able to share some Annie Jackson and Canadian wild goose. I have been searching for awhile now and haven't been able to get them in the us. Thank you for the consideration

Joe Rothberger wrote:I was wondering if you would be able to share some Annie Jackson and Canadian wild goose. I have been searching for awhile now and haven't been able to get them in the us. Thank you for the consideration

My understanding is that we aren't allowed to take seeds across the border.  You may want to consider reaching out to Heritage Harvest Seeds to see if they are able to export seeds.

Perhaps someone in the USA will see your request and be able to help out.  Good luck.