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I found one rogue bean amongst my Heritage Seed Library crop of Soldier beans last year and instead of roguing it out and getting rid, I saved the seeds to grow this year. I have some lovely results.
These a the best of my seeds. I want them for a dried winter crop so this is the stage I would be saving them. There's a dark bean with a pale speckled pattern and a white bean with black markings. Because I have a geology degree and you never quite shake it off, I want to call the dark bean Porphyry if I can get a true line going.
I'm looking for suggestions for the white with black markings one. I can only think of Old Speckled Hen - either I watch too much Dave or I'm hoping for Brewery sponsorship! Bit of a long name for a short bean though!
There's a pic of Speckled with its mum Soldier for size and colour comparison. What would you call it?
So don't chuck out anything unusual. It could lead to something truly wonderful (ok I'm gushing, but I'm rather excited just now!)
These a the best of my seeds. I want them for a dried winter crop so this is the stage I would be saving them. There's a dark bean with a pale speckled pattern and a white bean with black markings. Because I have a geology degree and you never quite shake it off, I want to call the dark bean Porphyry if I can get a true line going.
I'm looking for suggestions for the white with black markings one. I can only think of Old Speckled Hen - either I watch too much Dave or I'm hoping for Brewery sponsorship! Bit of a long name for a short bean though!
There's a pic of Speckled with its mum Soldier for size and colour comparison. What would you call it?
So don't chuck out anything unusual. It could lead to something truly wonderful (ok I'm gushing, but I'm rather excited just now!)
but this is what I thought when I saw the handful of 'splashed' beans on the far rhs. 
, but the beans could do worse than be call 'silhouette'. One of the beans (nearly bottom left) has a lovely tree outline on it.
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