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Blue-Jay

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"Giele Waldbeantsje" True bush dry bean. Known in the Netherlands as the Yellow Forest Bean. Very productive.

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"Kishwaukee Yellow" True bush wax snap bean with good flavor. An original bean named by me in 1977 after the Kishwaukee river that flows through three northern Illinois counties. Seed mother is Cherokee Wax. I have tried and tried to select this mottled seed coat to be the representative seed coat of the bean, but it always produces a solid black seed coat and a buff tan colored one. The seed coat in the photo is the way I first discovered it. The bean was sold commercially for a time by Horus Botanicals of Salem, Arkansas back in the 1990's. I first listed the bean in the Seed Savers Exchange yearbook in 1980. The bean did some what well this season considering the heavy rain at planting time.

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"Edogava Zurunacki Namame" A true bush growth habit. This bean filled out the row section I planted very well and the plants looked nearly normal in height for a bush bean. This is one I won't have to plant again next year. I acquired the bean from The Rare Vegetable Seed Consortium in 2016. I think the origin of the bean might be Georgia in eastern Europe.

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Hi BlueJay, I always read this thread and try very hard not to become a bean enthusiast! But I do have one question. Some of your photos say that is all the seed that you got on those beans. I know there are a lot of variables as to the low amount but it almost seems as if you only had one plant. But I'm sure this isn't the case. Why did some of your beans produce so few? Curious mind wants to know. ;)

Mary
 

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