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This bean was in a Joseph Simcox collection that I had acquired. I was able to look up the bean by name on a USDA seed bank site and it said origin UK. I think it's on a site when you google Grin Global. There isn't much else about the bean on the site as far as I remember.

Sounds like your $15 charge was made up by the clerk taking care of you at the one post office. Here when the postal clerk puts your package on the scale types in the zip code the weight and amount owed comes up on their screen. No way the people here can make up prices if that is what happened...

I think it really makes a difference which post office you are dealing with. A particular post office clerk might interpret what is required on customs labels differently. They just simply get picky. Sounds like your smaller post office is the place to go.

With trees in between you would be fine with limas. They cross easily. You being in Minnesota. You could start beans early in styro cups with potting mix like heirloomgal does. She's further north than you in Ontario and she grows beans that they grow in Kentucky and Tennessee. Give them about a...

Oh Woops You are correct !! 🤣

The Flynn bean from SMAC is not the same bean I have on my Network page.

Looking back at many of the posts for 2025 I ran across post #923. I would definitely plant the white bean with the widely set brown markings on it. It looks like a modified Pinto bean. It's probably a cross and in my book it's worth investigating it's growth some more.

Here is one bean that is a favorite of mine for beauty. It's called Anna Zape. It's from California. It's a cross between Anasazi and Rio Zape and it is stable. So how is this one for beauty? Anazape - Pole Dry

Going through my freezer file list of bean seed. I noticed a bean name I didn't know was there. Did anyone of the network grows send be Sonntagsbohne. Interpets into English as Sunday bean. The entry is dated 2023.

I'm still in the process of sorting and packaging 2025's seed crop for the freezer. When I'm done. I will do my 2025 bean show on this years 2026 thread. I need a new camera. I've taken over a hundred photos of beans with my phones camera. They are not terrible photos but still think in my...

You got blue beans with drought and extreme heat. Usually blue beans produce tan seeds when it's hot. The blue in most blue beans comes when the seed forms in cooler weather. I've seen September Blue produce tan seeds before. If you shine a very bright flashlight on the seed you will see a few...

Your bean package came today. I'm just blown away by the beauty of your beans. Wow ! you really did a lot of work this year on all these beans. Thank you so much. Did you get any off types from September Blue. You really returned such blue beans on this one. I hope you got to keep a great big...

What is the problem with being able to mail package from Europe to countries overseas? I got a message from a Network grower in France who said I will mail the return pakage when things return to normal. So why are things now abnormal. Also a Network in grower Germany who usually has their seeds...

I don't think that most beans be circulated among bean growers are made up by them. I think most of them are genuine heirlooms or you might say golden oldies.

I eat them too. They are a bean I named and I think it's getting close to stable or might already be stable. If you are getting any off types from it, it may have crossed again with something in the vicinity of where it was last grown.