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I'm located in central WV with an elevation of just over 1,700'. My in-laws live five miles away in the next county and at a lower...

That’s extremely impressive. A great achievement.

I do find that they’re late but they have made it in time reasonably comfortably. In a cool season it might be quite borderline.

I finally did a count on this years number of bean varieties. 🥳 This is always somewhat thrilling because from start to finish when it...

it is so strange to me that people on the southeastern coast have such an early snowfall, but perhaps you are more inland and uphill and...

Woke to the first snow of the year and had nearly 6" on the ground by dark. No plans to leave the house this week but will finish up...

Yes, 100% true to type. I think I grew 4 plants altogether. In your climate, do you find these a fairly easy to mature bean even if a...

So that's where the navy reference comes from! Wow, all this time I had no idea! That is the neatest historical tidbit.

I'm delighted you had good true-to-type seed as I grew them myself and had some off-types - plain black. Were all yours true St Anthony?

It seems that the term is used differently in UK from in US. I think @flowerbug is right in suggesting a connection with size but in...

Mine are the white seeded, also.

That's my association with the pea reference as well, the small white Navy beans. But I have grown the Inca Pea bean too, so I've come...

It was such a pleasure this year to grow the 'St. Anthony' bean. So grateful to you @Decoy1 because that bean has been on my wish list...

the only one i know of it is just the size of the bean (it's a small white bean) called the Navy Pea Bean or just the Navy Bean was how...

Are pea beans different than regular beans in some regard? Is the term pea meant to denote a particular kind of use?