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Fresh shelled seed from dry pods of Dolloff and Golden Lima. If they aren't one variety with two names they are so close of sister...

I sowed 5 "Gold of Bacau" network beans. 3 of 5 sprouted One plant did not look like the other two though. It had some purple...

Looks like @BeanWonderin and I are on the same bean pic wavelength! Schwarze Dalmatiner Bush, dry. Huge production, probably the...

Zazza - pole bean from Val Camonica, Lombardy, Italy. Very productive, from two plants I got almost 2 kg of seeds. Panzaredda - pole...

The earliest network bean this year, and one of the earliest pole beans of them all - 'Barry Island'. I usually start the beans in...

In my case, such damage to the pods occurred after heavy rains following a period of drought. Too much water at once. Is your Mohawk a...

"Bird Egg #3", pole, obtained from SSE in 2004, originally from John Withee (Wanigan Associates). While technically a snap, it is best...

The Flowerbugs continue :) Yed - semi runner. Very original seeds. I have never seen the colors red and yellow so interpenetrating each...

It has bean a hard year for beans. Especially bush beans. June was brutally hot with hardly a drop of rain. July gave us a little bit of...

This is Mohawk pole (not a Network bean). Is this common for this variety? Does too much watering cause this? Should I be picking...

On that third photo, are those ants digging into the pod between the top two visible beans? I have a few pods of Cornplanter purple...

it's been a tough year here too, just have to keep doing what we can.

@Oxford This year I also started mulching the soil around the beans with grass clippings to avoid damaging the roots when pulling out...

My Meerbarbe pods aren't purple. All pods seem to be green with a bit of reddish/purple blush. Will have to go back and observe those...

Luckily, it was never below 10 C (50 F) so far this summer - I am 500 meters / 1650 ft. above sea level. But because of the nearly...