Recent content by Artorius

@Blue-Jay , I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. I just wanted to complete my notes. I was curious if I could add Centerville Special to the varieties you selected from the Robert Lobitz materials you obtained. And that's all. It's obvious that you selected, stabilized and named...

Beans with "amber" in their name grew very well last year. Maybe they sensed that amber is Polish gold :)

I agree with @Triffid . Centerville Special is a lovely bean. I really like the tiny dots all over the seed coat. So this year I will be sowing @flowerbug's Spotted Pheasant again. @Blue-Jay Is the Centerville Special part of the Robert Lobitz Legacy series?

And three more network beans. Amber Queen - Robert Lobitz bush bean. Purple Rain - another Robert Lobitz, very tall bush bean. As @flowerbug wrote earlier, the seeds are smaller than Chaska Purple, but their quantity is much greater. Gvnagei - Cherokee pole bean. One of two native beans...

No, I haven't tried eating Paula's pods.

Hello, my name is Artur and I'm addicted.

@Dahlia I think a few hundred, over 500 for sure. And yes, I realize I should get treatment :)

Beans 2025 continued Laliberté - bush bean from Lothbinière, Quebec, Canada Schwarze Kugel - semi-runner, old German variety, very prolific. Little Falls - bush bean selected by @Blue-Jay. These types of beans grown in my location always produce seeds with more white color. Paula -...

I took these Zilie Hameleoni photos on a cloudy day, which is why the seeds are bluer. In the sun the green color is more visible. Hence the name, Blue Chameleons.

@flowerbug I don't know, I have not eaten the pods. I wanted to increase the seed count because I will probably send out quite a few. In Latvia, this bean is used as dried seeds, but the young pods may be edible.

More bean photos from 2025. Bonel di Fonzaso from the Veneto region, Italy. One of the two pole beans whose seeds I collected. Zilie Hameleoni - bush bean from Krimulda, Vidzeme (Livonia) region, Latvia Mountaineer White Half-Runner - I had a very good harvest.

I plant semi-runners similarly to @heirloomgal . If more runners appear, I simply add new sticks.

That's true. I started picking dry Chaska Purple pods when the Purple Rain harvest was already finished. @flowerbug , do you remember how big your Purple Rain plants were? Mine grew to over 1 meter tall. They didn't produce typical runners. They were just that big.

Last season, I had another Lobitz bean similar to Chaska Purple - Purple Rain (pics later). These are interesting beans. One pod may contain seeds that are almost completely purple along with seeds that are almost completely white.

Arikara Yellow bush Redland Pioneer bush snap from Australia. Blue Jay bush. I sowed it quite late, almost in mid-June, but all the pods had ripened on the plants by the end of September.