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This looks like a yellow eye variety. It seems every yellow eye I have grown are not as productive although I like them because of their history. I can imagine New Englanders and Nova Scotians harvesting significant quantities of yellow eyes simply because of the large tracts of ground devoted...

@heirloomgal , Your bean photos of your post #1044 are just gorgeous. This is the quality of seed I would always like to send out to Network growers. That's one of the ways the Network functions best. When growers return that quality of seed then I can send that kind of seed out to growers...

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

I wonder if you could send a small package like just one packet of Zinnia seed or something over the border just so you can practise on the Zonos app. Know anyone in Minnesota not far away? Is the Zonos app for mailing in Canada also? What is the lowest cost postage you can do from Canada to...

You can wait to mail beans here after I come back. I should be back late in the afternoon on December 18. Anyway I have my next door neighbor collecting my mail.

I know that I grew the traditional one because when I recieved the U of California versions. I recorded that information in my computer records when I put the U of California seed in the freezer. So when I took seed out of my freezer the record just simply showed Rio Zape and how many seeds...

I grew the traditional Rio Zape this summer. Not the one bred by the U of California. Had we not had that extra sevearl weeks of warm weather these would not have turned like they did for me this year. I would probably have been pulling up plants and taking them home to dry in my garage. However...

I think it's some kind of stress. Heat, maybe not quite not enough water. Low mineral content of the soil that has to do with seed formation. It could even be that the variety itself is more sensitive to certain stresses. There were other beans in this same plot that produced abundant seed crops...

Anyone get a lot of beans that were wacked out of shape like my photo on the left. My largest bush dry bean plot produced a lot of beans that were oddly shaped. Princes Rose - 2025.........................................................................Princes Rose 2018

Thank you Petra. All the shelling is done and I'm going for a visit to a friend's place in Florida for a month and half. Novenber to middle of Decmeber. Will be sorting the beans when I return and preparing them for storage in a freezer. It will probably take me until the middle of January to do...

Early this morning 10-24-2025 we had a killing frost. Growing season is now over. This was almost three weeks later than many of our October frosts I've seen in the past 10 years.

Now that you have a photo ot them together. I can see the margins of where the pink meets the white on Tunny is more irregular. I had to change my mind on this one. The pattern of Siebenbürgen-Kärnten is similar to Ukrainian Pole or Kroatische.

Kind of Reminds me of Tunny except maybe for much bigger seed.

It can be difficult to pull them out if they have been driven in the ground to much over a foot deep. I had a fellow from Iowa help me put in a bunch of them this year and most of his were hard to get out. He used one of those post rams. It's like and empty cylinder with handles on the sides...