Well, for those of you that just want photos of Violet, I might as well get that in right away.
Patti and I picked all of the Painted Mountain flour corn yesterday. We did not get a lot, though it did well. We have a tendency to lose most of it to mice, which I knew would happen, but just wanted enough to make sure I had new year seeds to plant with older ones next year.
Letting it stay on the stalk long enough to mature, and at the Ness farm, this is what most of it looks like. Oh well. Knew it would happen, got enough for my purposes.
And might as well put in this photo. We have found that this F3 is one of the sweetest and best tasting tomatoes we have ever had ……. but it is thick skinned. Going to have to think about continuing this line. Maybe later generations could be selected for thinner skins.
Patti and I went to check and document the beans I am growing out on trellises at the Ness farm.
So the photos above, and the one below, are of the Dog Gate bean, first two are of the tan with red markings, and the one below is the red with tan speckles. None have dried down so no clue of coloration. Plants are all tall and vigorous with a lot of pods set.
Good Mother Stollard also has set pods well, but none dried down yet.
The white seeded sport of Blue Shaxamon is holding true and starting to dry pods already. It will be a good sized increase this year of seeds.
The lowest set pods of the Abenaki beans are just starting to dry down. This pod had six large seeds in it. I dropped one out of the top as I was taking the picture, and the bottom seed is covered by my finger.
Old Man Minnetonka beans have set well. 
This is an interesting one. I have both bush and pole from seeds saved last year. Both taste the same. This was from a cross which gave me a tan seeded yellow wax pole last year. The bush set is heavy.
Pole set is fine as well. Both taste pretty much the same, and are a nice stringless wax.
The black colored Abenaki crosses are set well, but nothing drying down yet.
The reds from the same grow out last year are not showing as many pods yet.
True Red Cranberry is having a good year as well.
This group of F3 Dragon Tongue/Hidatsa Shield cross are showing a lot of diversity.
Yellow Amish Nuttle, which I grew to see how vigorously they would climb if given the room, are mostly topping out at about 50 inches, which is good to know.
Blue Shaxamon are set well. It is nice that they dry down the dark purple color. Makes the pods easy to find.
The flat purple podded/black seeded curiosity from my Purple Podded Pole last year had to have been an F1, as every plant grown from those seeds is different. Everything from green beans, to yellows, and purples are showing this year.
Even have a chimera in there, which is kind of cool. Half purple, half green along the spine.
Seeds are whitish for this one.
Black in another purple podded one.
Purple in a green podded one that dried to tan.
Super early sets and dry down makes this an attractive short season bean.
Anyway, for those that had followed the planting of them earlier in the year (when the photos of the seeds were taken and posted on here http://threedaughtersfarm.com/wp/?p=6214
Now, I am going to play with the puppy, and make dinner for a house full of noisy girls.
