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Got the first draft of the 2025 bean list done! There's some left to add yet, but this is the bulk of them. Pole Beans: Ukrainian...

More tomatoes from this year. Podarok Moyey Zhene / Gift To My Wife Russian 117 Red Veselaya Sosedka / Merry She-neighbor...

Tarahumara Bakamina One of two surviving half-runner beans, the second one was Tinker's Fire. The others were washed away by water...

A new bean arrived today, Elortza. Comes from the village of Elortza in Spain's Basque Autonomous Community. It's a bush dry bean.

So Guy Dirix post this information on facebook about this bean with the upside down exclamation mark. It is a bush bean from Cusco-Peru...

Sometimes I think patterns and shadings of color in beans just might be endless.

I've never seen beans with an upside-down exclamation point before!

Some bean mail today from Artorious. So his package went through the USDA inspection routine and was forwarded to me. Artorious thought...

A new bean I purchased, originally bought from a market in Malawi; it goes by the name 'Malawi Mix'. We'll see what's actually in the...

I'm going to guess that the seeds with flattened ends will repeat. You might have two slightly different strains of this bean. Rounded...

Oh, you don't have? But everybody should have some! As I see, @Triffid has already begun to take care of this problem. Very good! If you...

Rosso del Cadore from Veneto, Italy. One of the earliest pole beans I have ever had. I picked my first dry pods in late July/early...

Red Eagle, Red Sport, Crow River Black.

This is my Hewitt shortly after harvesting in 2022 so I can confirm the darker colouring.

The Zazza seeds I sowed looked similar to the ones in the picture. The colors were already oxidized. A year without a fridge or freezer...