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oh goody, having fun shelling beans and seeing some of my crosses giving results i like to see. :) :) :)

So, I'm shopping for potential network beans to request for next year (Call me crazy. Not gonna argue.) and love the look of Kiagara...

Yes. You unknowingly planted some seeds of F1 Avalon crosses in with your Avalon seeds, so they produced F2 seed. The color patterns...

Weather here has been a rollercoaster ride this season. May and June were cool and we had so much rain and flooding. That was followed...

i was able to get out for a few hours of bean picking today. :) i'm hoping i got two of the network bean numbers improved but won't...

Interesting season. Our rain has been feast or famine all summer. July we had a 3 day round of 4 inches, 10 cm of rain. Since this past...

Yes, I hadn't though of that. I don't think my supports would ever fail under weight, but the plants themselves could possibly tear or...

Frost irrigation does work, but there is a limit to how cold it can be and still be protective. I also think that you managed to thread...

wow, this weather forecast has gone from great to the opposite in only a couple of days. while the beans that are just developing might...

'Horticultural White' A 'Bamberger Blaue' pod got got sclerotina so I plucked out the good shellies from it to peek. Pretty!

adzuki bean domestication :) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads2871

The Red beans with the dark markings look like Potawatomi lima.

Todays' collected pods, 'Brutt Buon' and 'Buenos Aires Rojo'.

It seems safe to assume that SOME of the Avalon you planted was F1, since you are seeing multiple different colors and shapes. But even...

In beans, the seedcoat is always maternal tissue, and the size and shape of the seed is controlled by the mother plant as well. So the...