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Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 17 Cold Creek - Bush Dry - This bean was a segregation of it's seed mother in 2019 which I was also...

@Heliena I love zinnias and wouldn't have a garden without them. That said, having planted them in every spare nook and cranny, I've...

I've been optimistically holding off on requesting any Network beans for 2026 but it's likely I'll just concentrate on the varieties...

I’ve seen you mention the Zinnias a few times, do you find that the beans planted along the Zinnias do better overall? I’ve grown beans...

I've never noticed if the Zinnias caused the beans to produce better. I had 4 rows of semi runners last summer and one row of beans was...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 16 Chickasaw - Semi Runner Dry. I discovered this bean in a Sulphur bean which was a bush. I still think...

This is such an interesting line of thought with seeds! It's so easy with animals; we all consider one generation distinctly different...

Pretty beans! I love all of the bean names! I never knew how many different kinds of beans existed until I joined this forum years back!

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 15 Cherry Trout - Bush Dry. This bean struggled during the summer of 2025. It also didn't like the...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 14 Cherokee - Semi Runner Dry. In early September 2011 I was browsing on the internet and I clicked on a...

@Blue-Jay , I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. I just wanted to complete my notes. I was curious if I could add...

good luck! it has not been grown here recently and probably won't be for a year or two yet.

Yes it is but I still consider this an original bean of mine. This bean is about 10 generations removed from any of the last saved beans...

Beans with "amber" in their name grew very well last year. Maybe they sensed that amber is Polish gold :)

Victoria Brown Eyes has some form of that but the shape of the bean is different (the color is also different :) ). i've grown VBE a...