I expect to grow:

Woods Mountain Crazy Bean

Fowler Bush Bean

Tennessee Cutshort

Barksdale

Cherokee Trail of Tears

Tarahumara Purple Ojos

Tarahumara Dark Purple

Mecatlán Black (a half runner black dry bean from Veracruz, Mexico)

Berta Talaska

That's probably all. I do hope to grow Woods Mountain Crazy Bean and Tennessee Cutshort in larger quantity.

I know I am a little late to this party & my list is not as exciting as others but here goes - Fortex, Emerite, Tobacco worm ,Red striped greasy & a bush bean that my daddy started growing back in the 1980's. He called them 6 week beans. His original source was his brother living in Owlsley county , KY. Daddy passed away a few years back & a long time neighbor of my daddy sent me some bean seeds from those beans. I grew 30 plants for seed last summer but didn't cook any. Hope they taste as good as I remember from my youth!

I will grow these to eat.

Neckargold

Fortex

Christmas Lima

Shirohana-mame

Winnifred's Garbanzo

Aeron Purple Star

Fava (given to me years ago, no name)

Yard Long

And these for seed...and to eat if I get a good crop!

Kabarovsk

Frost

Striped Romano

Barry Island Pole

Cresijevic

Bregenzer

I will also plant some wild bean seed (Strophostyles Helvoa) along my hedgerow and see how that goes!

Aftermidnight...have you tried popping the Nuna beans? How did that go? I have seed, tried popping some, failed miserably! I thought you popped them like popcorn..didn't know you had to cook them first! I don't have enough seed to try popping them again..maybe I'll plant them this year.

Donna, no, I only grew samples in a tub so wanted to keep all for seed. Two of the samples grew really well, I don't know if they would be called a twining bush or a half runner, one grew 45", the other 53". The third a commercial variety I had a hard time getting any to germinate but finally got 3 plants which turned out to be a true bush bean.

I plan on growing one of them this year and hope to try popping a few after seed harvest. Apparently they can be popped in a little oil in a frying pan, how did you do yours? I've also read somewhere about soaking for awhile first. Anyone else done this?

Annette

Thanks for the info. I tried popping them in oil, they just cooked and cooked and cooked..no popping! I found a blog somewhere that said you fully cook them, then pat them dry with a towel, then you put them in oil and pop them. I will keep trying. I had about 60% germination when I tried them on paper towels, so I will try growing them this year.

One more now on this year's grow list. A bean variety I have been searching for a long time arrived in the mail yesterday. "Bob and Mary" a pole bean grown in British Columbia at the beginning of the 20th century. The only source I knew for this one 'The Heritage Seed Library'. With the help of Russ Crow he knew someone who had these in the UK and was willing to share a few with me.

After some inquiring I found the bean seed had been mailed before Christmas so thought they must have been lost in the mail. Mailed November 26th. 2016, they arrived yesterday March 21st. just a few days short of 4 months, this puts a new meaning to snail mail. Thank you, Galina, you really made my day yesterday :).

It is said the pods of this endangered heirloom can be eaten juicy and young, or tender and mature, hopefully I'll have a few seeds to share in the fall, help in a small way get this one back in circulation. I have a lead on the other one I was looking for "Sarah's Old Fashioned Black" grown on Vancouver Island, hopefully I'll have a few of these in the fall. I'm a great believer in paying it forward and it looks like I'm not the only one :).

Still haven't finalized my list yet, probably not until they're all in the ground, someone needs to light a fire under me LOL.

Annette

I guess this is a bean list.

New Mexico Red Appaloosa

Anasazi

Zuni Gold (aka. four corners gold bean)

Rio Zape

Great White Northern

Black turtle bean

Four Corners Runner & Aeron Purple Star

Natural F1 crosses between some of these from last year.

I'm also going to try recreating the New Mexico Black Appaloosa which is now extinct. I will use the N.M. Red Appaloosa and breed it with the smaller but black Vaquero bean. I may need to backcross back to the red to retain the Size and distinct slight kidney shape, but i think i can do it!

I'd also like to make a cross between Great White Northern and some of the others like the black bean.

My bean list, some that are new this year, I'm looking forward to another great bean season since I increased my trellises-

Alice Sunshine bush/snap

Blue Ribbon bush/snap

Bosnian Pole snap

Cline's Potato Patch bush/snap

Frank Barnett pole/snap

Kenearly Yellow Eye bush/dry

Ramshorn pole

Rio Zape pole

Sicitalian Black Swamp

Stolfus String bush/dry

Sweet Lorane Fava bean

Tendergreen bush/snap

Tiger Eye

Topnotch Golden Wax bush/snap

Beans I have grown before-

Annellino Giallo pole/snap very tender as a full bean, keep going into fall

Insuk's Wang Kong runner pole bean

Jembo Polish pole/large-seeded snap

Mayflower pole/dry

North Carolina Speckled Long Greasy Cutshort pole/snap

Red Eye Fall pole/snap, dry so pretty and uniform to shell but not terribly productive

Super Marconi Romano pole/snap Wonderful broad bean, keeps on producing toward fall

Turkey Craw pole/snap, dry

Zelma Zesta pole/snap first and last to produce, very tasty