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this morning's adventure in bean sorting and shelling was an unlucky bounce when the bean i was looking at was dropped and managed to...

as i was shelling out some Purple Dove beans last night (after doing a different box of mixed beans with much tougher pods to shell) i...

As far as I’m aware, the most common European varieties with roughly that patterning but not that colouring are pea beans which come...

and to make things even more complicated about Pink Tip, many years ago someone from down south sent me some Pink Tip beans that were...

No problem as I actually thought I planted the greasy ones and have the description for Pinktip Greasy in my notes. Better to discover...

My Pink Tip beans were the white seeded ones on the right @ruralmamma , I guess I should have added Greasy to the name when I referenced...

I wonder too, I quite like that coloration. It seems a uniquely European bean seedcoat.

@heirloomgal, @Neen5MI, what color were your Pinktip seeds? I was intrigued when both of you mentioned that it didn't do well for you...

I woke up around 3 am and worked on sorting and packaging Network beans in hopes that I might possibly get them mailed while I'm out...

I really like beans patterned like Ukrainian Pole and Kroatische. I wonder how many more there are like these.

I also grew Pink Tip Greasy this season. Very late maturing, and I won't try to grow it again, but I've harvested enough good seed to...

it will be fun today to be able to pick through a bean patch as much as i can get done before starting to get it put up for the winter...

Interestingly, my experience with Pink Tip Greasy was similar to my grow out with the 'Custodia' bean of Spain. Only Custodia was a...

Ok I'm going to wait until your back to send the box. There will be a fair bit in there considering I'm sending back some of last...

@Blue-Jay The resistance to BCMV is nice but the plants looked like they were more succeptible to some other things this season, could...