Recent content by Blue-Jay

Wow ! Who's seed packet from? Who is the seller? Where is the seller from? Just never know where I'm going to pop out of next. I discovered recently Blue Jay is sold by Living Seeds in South Africa. Well I'm glad to have put something that has been my passion for a long time into the world...

@Heliena said I'm peeking in on this thread for the first time after finding @Blue-Jay's website on my quest for unusual beans. Welcome Heliena ! So glad you are here. I think you've found the right place and are set to enjoy beans like you have never enjoyed them before. BTW what is young...

It would be fun to grow them out this coming summer. You can't declare them as seeds of any kind when you ship to the U.S. Customs will confiscate the seeds and destroy them unless we use my small seed lots account. If I email you all the documents you need to use can you print them out on your end?

Could you send a few seeds for me to Decoy of the first off type. That bean looks a little gray and black to me. Anyway Decoy will have a return package coming back one day.

The first off type is great looking bean. Did you keep the off types to grow out again?

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...