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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...

The End Of A Bean Season The Vines are now all bare The Supports Are Now Bare Without Vines. The Supports Are All Coming Down The Empty Pods Are Ready For Shredding The Vines Are Ready For Shredding The Vines Have Now Met The Lawnmower The Pods...

Yes all done. I started shelling pods back in about middle of August and kept at it steadily when I wasn't doing something else. The whole harvest from 4,700 square feet 438 square meters gardening ground, I'll do my bean 2025 show in January,

Today I finished shelling the last pods I have harvested. I will photo all of this years grown beans and start packing them in a freezer when I return home from Florida about the 18th of December. Still lots of work to do.

I wonder if it would help to plant your bush beans farther apart maybe even 12 inches. More air space to allow for drying of foliage.

Try to grow them again next year. Now you have more beans to work with.

We had frost on the rooftops of the houses around me this morning 41 degrees F 5 C, but nothing down near ground level. My snap beans on the south side of my house are still alive. Tilled my backyard bean nursery soil yesterday and the backyard flowerbed. Then I took the tiller over to my...

I have grown Ohio Pole here in our hot Midwest summers and never had any trouble with new seed sprouting in the pods. I wonder if some climates are not hot enough to dry out the pods and seed fast enough for the way the pods are constructed?

I think Gopher is not stable yet. Don't worry about sending any back this year. Grow them again next year. Gopher and Cleopatra came out of the Same packet. All the beans from Avalon page 10 to Yellow Point came to me in 52 packets of crosses from Will Bonsall of Industry Maine. Some of these...