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I shelled a bunch of the Trionfo Violetto and found extensive, subtle variation in the seed coat. I thought you might be curious.

That seems to have happened to me this year, on three trout/cattle pattern beans I bought from Russ's store. Some were more extreme...

Yes this is true with some beans that have this Jacob's patterned seed coat. Warmer summers and the seed is mostly colored without very...

I have picked Bigarradda pods for just a short amount of time and I can already tell that it's a high production bean. I can't find...

I grew two beans that looked like this in the early 1980's. The yellow podded bean was called Sultan's Golden Moon. The green podded one...

While looking for more information on seed coat patterns and bean genetics, I found this bean research article and I thought it was...

An elderly Italian gardener gave me seeds of a small crescent-shaped yellow pole snap bean. She told me that they're really good-- but...

While I've been harvesting a few varieties for seed, I foresee this week as the beginning of a harvest explosion! No more harvesting...

First 2025 dry bean food of the year for us. Italian Bean Salad with fresh Dolloff beans.

The beautiful rose-green pods of Rossa de Son Macià. The pods are about 10 cm/ 4 inches.

Some of my nicer looking beans :) Mountaineer White Half-Runner Lobitz's Purple Rain Pods of another Lobitz's bean. - Chaska...

I also started the seed harvesting. Interestingly, I found a Meerbarbe / blue sea barb where the seeds have a reversed color of white...

I'm free of frosts, but the ground temperature is still a bit lower than I'd like. I should be ready to start planting out this weekend...

Hope this helps

I'm growing this bean this year and already have dry pods. I also have Dow Purple Pod and Purple Pod Pole as network beans. All very...