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@Oxford This year I also started mulching the soil around the beans with grass clippings to avoid damaging the roots when pulling out...

Yikes is it cold. 🥶 With a turtleneck and a hoodie I'm still cold out there, it was 13C/55F today. Miserable. But it's going to warm up...

Thanks for sharing your experience. I must have just lucked out, that my first exposure was so successful. The idea of a bean with a...

got some picking of beans in and then the rains dotted me and i was ready to come in anyways.

My flat was getting full, so I shelled the Blue Tip beans from last week to make room for the new pods to dry. Seven seeds per pod and...

i tried a few and found most of them were too long of a season for us or close enough to not be reliable. to me it is no fun to put in...

I've developed an interest in the Appalachian varieties, and have had mixed results. Last season I grew Headricks Greasy Cutshort, Dean...

I very much like Bragançano too but I think of it as quite a late bean so I think yours is doing quite well to be producing now. For a...

The delicate 'Marie-Louise' bean. I love the name, and I love the color of the pods, reminds me a little of peaches. Portuguese bean...

Marvel of Nictaux

Rose d'Eyragues

now i want one for breakfast...

'Mazeppa' was one of the first network beans I ever grew. 🤎 I'm regrowing it this year because I've always wanted to increase the amount...

My Meerbarbe pods aren't purple. All pods seem to be green with a bit of reddish/purple blush. Will have to go back and observe those...

Oooh! That actually sounds really good! 😋