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Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 24 Frost - Pole Dry. Pre 1790 bean. Grown by both British and American gardeners in colonial times...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 24 Fountain Pitts Allen - Pole Dry. I got this bean from a Stephen Smith of Guthrie, Kentucky. He claims...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 23 Flossie Powell - Pole Lima. This bean did very well in soil that others literally droped dead. 4...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 22 Epsilon - Bush Dry. Here is another cross I've been growing and just aching for it to stabalize so I...

I'm the same way. Maybe it's like looking into the night sky at all those tiny little twinkling speckles so far away. Almost hypnotic.

Draper's Glen :love. Something about beans with that faint speckle makes me swoon. :th

Seedy Sunday was an absolute blast, the most wonderful one I've ever done. They expanded the physical area to include a large adjoining...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 21 Draper's Glen - Semi Runner Dry. Discovered this bean in 2019 in Marico. Lately the bean has taken to...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 21 Doti Dotion - Pole Dry. This bean grew to about 7 feet (2.3 Meters). It reminded me a lot of Neabels...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 19 Diamont - Pole Dry - A gift to me from a bean friend in Austria who I believe may have acquired the...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 19 Delicous Giant - Pole Snap. Developed by the Gill Brother's Seed Company of Portland, Oregon and...

You have another stunner in Cosmic Girl @Blue-Jay 🤩 As well as the pattern, I'm really drawn to the unusual tear drop shape of some of...

I think I've decided that I will request some network beans from you this year. I sat on the fence about it, but I re-checked with my...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 18 Corree De Sang - Pole Dry, This bean also struggled. I got a few quality seeds to try over. Maybe...

There were only two growers of Pinktip Greasy in 2025. One was in Michigan. They live a little bit north of Kalamazoo.They returned seed...