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I started picking the first dry and soft Amber Queen pods. Bis will be ready for harvesting in a moment... ...and Zilie Hameleoni too. I still have to wait a little longer for pole beans. The Czar runner bean. Gvnagei - Cherokee bean. I saw somewhere on the internet that Gvnagei...

The Polish Post has also temporarily suspended shipping to the US all items except correspondence and documents. Reason: many ambiguities and restrictions imposed by the US government and air carriers.

@heirloomgal, I install the first strings when the plants begin to branch out, and the next ones as they grow. I braid the first string around the plants, the next ones just tie them around. In the photo, Scala is only tied around. I simply ran out of string :)

Schwarze Kugel ready for harvest. I planted my Blue Jays a bit late, but September is supposed to be warm so I'm counting on a good crop. Scala bush wax. I got my seeds from Franchi Sementi, so I think it's an Italian variety. Or maybe Dutch, I'm not sure. It's an early bean, so I planted...

@Blue-Jay, can you write more about the Skunk River Trout bean that @oxbow farm showed?

That's right, I have several varieties of such beans from Italy and Austria, especially from the Steiermark / Styria region. This is what my 2023 Rassacher Kipfler looked like.

Some of my nicer looking beans :) Mountaineer White Half-Runner Lobitz's Purple Rain Pods of another Lobitz's bean. - Chaska Purple. They are wider and longer than those of Purple Rain Elektra is reliable as always.

In my case, such damage to the pods occurred after heavy rains following a period of drought. Too much water at once. Is your Mohawk a pole variant of Early Mohawk ?

@Oxford This year I also started mulching the soil around the beans with grass clippings to avoid damaging the roots when pulling out weeds. It's only 5 C (41 F) here this morning. It hasn't been this cold at this time of year for a long time. I just found the first dry pods on my bush beans...

The flower shoots of Mongeta del Ganxet Xic are getting larger. I think the flowers will open in three or four days. It seems this ecotype is indeed earlier than other Ganxets.

I'm asking because I've noticed that the plants whose roots I damaged while removing weeds and those heavily undermined by moles are dying. It appears that common beans are very sensitive to root damage at a certain stage of their growth. However, runner beans and limas never died out.

My Schwarze Kugel is a bush with short runners. I got the seeds from Austria. I didn't know there was a pole variant.

I have a Schwarze Kugel this year. It has been blooming for quite a while now and has a lot of pods. Tuvagliedda is just starting to bloom, as is Bonel di Fonzaso. I had all the Tuvaglieddas and of them all, the Tuvagliedda Marrone was the earliest to bloom. Correction, I didn't have the...

I had a similar experience. Succotash is a late-flowering bean, but I ended up harvesting a lot of nice seeds.

@heirloomgal Have you been pulling weeds around those dying beans?