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Then there are really no drawbacks here. Sounds and looks good.

This is attractive indeed with the speckles. And the not dropping trait is a bonus, but do you have to open each husk to see whether the fruit is ripe with this one?

No confusion at all, thank you for the extra info Decoy. Appreciated.

@heirloomgal , here is some information about the origin of Bela Putersnica. https://www.bohnen-atlas.de/drucken/2022-bela-putersnica

Flowerbug, thank you for this article. Never knew that we have to thank Mr Lobitz for the Golden Sweet pea, which I have used in my own pea crosses to good effect. And I have just podded the lovely Red Swan beans here (to bring the post back to the bean topic with a jolt). Very interesting read!

You are welcome. They are the identical strain to those from HSL. Both originated from Mr Yeoman's Gardening Guild, and he had them from the USA, from Brook Elliott's Appalachian Heirloom Conservancy. All of Mr Yeoman's special varieties have found a home at HSL after his passing. Just hope...

I should have added that Rose is one of those beans that has a slighty higher tendency to cross than most. Maybe bag a couple of flower trusses from white flowering plants for guaranteed pure seeds for yourself. Then next time you don't have to mark which plants are which and can start with...

White, according to my notes. https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/seeds/climbing-french-bean-rose-bean

And you have 5 seeds in a pod, is this usual for you or an exception? Mine tend to have 4 only by and large. There must be something that makes your garden particularly suited to them. I harvested pods at this stage in early October, not in mid August. The seeds look identical.

I agree, it is meant to be green. There is another bean, Ryder's Blue Coco bean that is purple. https://www.beansandherbs.co.uk/product/ryders-blue-coco-2/

Interesting. Blau Weiße von Bernada here is definitely earlier than Succotash. And it did not need greenhouse protection in England either.

Yes Succotash is a bit of a difficult one and very late. A botanist in my German bean gardening group has found evidence to suggest that it is actually not a phaseolus vulgaris, but a Lima bean, a phaseolus lunatus. I have not heard this from any other source (yet), but it would explain why it...

I do also believe these are ok. Bean mosaic shows as narrowed leaves and darker green patches on these leaves. Google has photos. Yours are evenly coloured.

Super photos.

And such lovely sharp photos too.