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[Blue-Jay]

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 26​

Georgia Black & White - Pole Dry. I grew a bunch of Network beans this year. This one produced good size seed and considering the heart of this past summer it did very well. Another one of the Joesph Simcox beans brought over from the country of Georgia.

Georgian - Pole Dry. I removed the pole from it's name on the website and just called it Georgian. It produced fairly well considering the summer and produced a large sized seed. Another Simcox collected bean from the country of Georgia. Nobody grew it before this past summer so I thought I would have a go at it. Large green pods stiped with purple.


Georgia Black And White - Pole Dry...................Georgian - Pole Dry

 

[heirloomgal]

So excited, looks like all my beans will arrive tomorrow! I guess given that we just had the snowpocalypse it might be an extra day I guess. Not all the streets are open yet, but I'm hopeful!

 

[Blue-Jay]

So excited, looks like all my beans will arrive tomorrow! I guess given that we just had the snowpocalypse it might be an extra day I guess. Not all the streets are open yet, but I'm hopeful!

We had snow all during the night Sunday and more Monday morning. It looked like the middle of January in March. We got more snow last night. There must be 5 inches (12.7 cm). Last nights snow covered over all the areas that had melted open on the streets and sidewalks. I don't know how the poor Robins that have migrated back live through this.

When you get your bean package let me know what you think about the contents.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 27​

Green Savage - Pole Green Snap. People really like this bean or are at least interested in finding out what it's like for themselves. I had to do another grow out in 2025. I'm glad that I got this bean from one of our Pensylvania seed swappers before the grower quit coming to swaps. Bred in Louisiana in the 1940's. I would imagine it puts up with the stresses of high humidity in the Gulf coast area of the U.S. It is widely adapted and grows well in northern climates as well. Very productive, rust resistant with beautiful round straight pods. It is definitely another one of my favorite pole snap beans.

Haricot Crevette - Pole Dry. A very productive dry bean that produces nice quality of seed. I had obtained this bean from a Hobartville, New South Wales, Australia grower in November 2013 and grew it for the first time in 2014. This past summer of 2025 gave me a pound and a half of seed (686 gm) from 8 plants. My grower contact in Australia had gotten this bean from the Australian seed bank and none other than Joseph Simcox was the donor of this bean to that seed bank.


Green Savage - Pole Green Snap...................................Haricot Crevette - Pole Dry

 

[flowerbug]

Green Savage - Pole Green Snap. People really like this bean or are at least interested in finding out what it's like for themselves. I had to do another grow out in 2025. I'm glad that I got this bean from one of our Pensylvania seed swappers before the grower quit coming to swaps. Bred in Louisiana in the 1940's. I would imagine it puts up with the stresses of high humidity in the Gulf coast area of the U.S. It is widely adapted and grows well in northern climates as well. Very productive, rust resistant with beautiful round straight pods. It is definitely another one of my favorite pole snap beans.

yes, i recall it being reasonably productive for me when i grew it those years ago. too bad it is a pole bean, but i did have extra seeds for a long time and did get some of those given away to other people before i ran out. i don't think i have any here now other than perhaps some of those genes running around in other beans.

 

[heirloomgal]

We had snow all during the night Sunday and more Monday morning. It looked like the middle of January in March. We got more snow last night. There must be 5 inches (12.7 cm). Last nights snow covered over all the areas that had melted open on the streets and sidewalks. I don't know how the poor Robins that have migrated back live through this.

When you get your bean package let me know what you think about the contents.

Wow! You're getting the snow too! We finally got out to a walk the dog today and there's such deep snow accumulated in the forest that the moose and deer have resorted to using our machine groomed snowmobile trails to be mobile. They left a bunch of gifts on the trail.

 

[Artorius]

At this time of year, moose and deer leave such gifts here. A photo from a few years ago, but its meaning is still current.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 28​

Hypolita - Pole Dry. This bean might even be a semi runner. I found this bean in Angel Cattle in 2016. Angel cattle is a bean I got from Professor Jurgen Klapprott in Germany in 2014. Hypolita produced an off type when I grew it in 2017. Nice size seed with a large brown eye patch. So I grow out Hypolita gain in 2025 and got the same off type. What I discovered about Hypolita is that the seed is always got lot of the inner white membrane of the pod stuck to it all the time. I saw that the first time I grew the bean in 2017. Very messy bean to shell and you need to rub off that white membrane from the seed. The off type is totally clean. So I'm thinking of using the Hypolita name for the white seed with the large brown eye patch.


Hypolita - Pole Dry..................................................Hypolita Off Type - Pole Dry



Angel Cattle - Bush dry. Hypolita's seed mother

 

[Dahlia]

At this time of year, moose and deer leave such gifts here. A photo from a few years ago, but its meaning is still current.

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Wow! Did you hang it on your wall!? Impressive piece!

 

[Neen5MI]

@Blue-Jay I don't know if it's realistic to ask you this since you have so many limas in your huge collection, but just off the top of your head, is there any that come to mind as being especially early? Or do you think that they're all, more or less, just a late maturing species?

I have gotten a few this year to try from some local vendors, none of them are special, just chatgpt recommended ones based on earliness. But I wonder if among collectors some of the more rare & special ones are knowns as earlies.

I'm sorry I didn't see this before you made your request for network beans. I grew Dixie Speckled Butterpea 2 years ago in my 6a Michigan garden. I expected it to be a pole, but it grew as a bush bean, and matured in good time in my garden. Also, reasonably productive, and very pretty, to me. It might be worth a try in your setting.