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What a pretty bean. I'm writing it down in my notebook.

are those well aged or is that how they came from the pods? if from the pod they would be darker enough i would consider them a...

Hewitt has darker stripes, but the pattern is similar

@Triffid, I don't feed my beans with anything special. Before sowing, I give nitrogen and potassium to the soil and later, when the...

Now that's extraordinary :oops: what did you feed them?

@heirloomgal, the purple color seems to be similar to Lucie, but I'm not 100% sure. I would have to take the seeds out of the freezer to...

@Artorius is Barba di Frate purple the way Lucie is purple? Or a cartoon grape? At first I thought it was the same coloration as the...

@BeanieQueen, I can't answer your question because I don't have Hewitt bean.

@Artorius , that is a remarkable success story.

All gorgeous.. On this photo Zazza looks a bit like Hewitt, when fresh. Is there a difference between them?

I had a miracle bean also one year also back in 2014. My miracle bean was Armenian Giant Black. A young man from Ohio sent me 5 seeds of...

Zazza - pole bean from Val Camonica, Lombardy, Italy. Very productive, from two plants I got almost 2 kg of seeds. Panzaredda - pole...

Vermont Appaloosa looks very similar and that is the color they are when fresh out of the pods. i've been growing it for 13 years...

In that case I will keep the Golden Bear Lake seeds at room temperature longer. They were already frozen so the weevils will not appear...

A new bean I discovered online, which I plan to order. I actually found a bean that looked very similar to this once in a patch of...