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All beautiful @Oxford, and that one bottom right is stunning. 😍

The weather has been a real rollercoaster this year. And after last year, this is the second year in a row. The initially hot and dry...

My network bean Nyautenibe Nchenachena looks similar. I've been growing it for three years now and it's been a failure again. In...

I'm so happy Schneebohne did so well for you @Blue-Jay! Kinda makes me feel all giddy that my bean hero likes a bean I sent him! lol...

Today I decided to take a photo of my Blue Spitball plants. Just to show what some of my bean plants had done this summer. I think these...

The postal workers are on strike again. No mail service. :somad All I can do is hope it doesn't last. Now both political parties are...

I'm pretty much doing the same. Not so much fog as heavy dew most mornings and a few days of rain lately. I am finding the combination...

... i'm picking some (the rarer beans) pods as soon as they start turning color so i can dry them inside under less dewy conditions -...

I was noodling around on the internet looking for information on bean crosses and stuff (as one does) and I ran across this article...

The last stragglers of 2025. 'Badda Nera', 'Gialet' and 'Custodia' (bottom). The only ones left in the ground in the main garden...

It feels like Christmastime for this bean collector! I've been really sticking to my resolve with not opening pods yet, and waiting...

making progress on my Purple Dove project. you can see many beans in these pictures that look like variations of Purple Dove but do not...

I was bad today and opened a few of the 'Ukrainian' pods. They were dry, but not super crispy dry which is what I was waiting for, but...

I don't find they have trouble so much climbing, as it's the yields that don't seem quite the same. But that could be my imagination...

Had an inch of rain yesterday and went out this morning and grabbed any spongy pods before the rain started again. Been leaving the...