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interesting tidbit came across variety of bean called "Trionfo Violetto", but very few pictures of seeds of this variety. has anyone...

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...

I would say that the grower of the outcross usually can keep the outcrossed seed. Sometimes the grower will send some of the outcrossed...

Gold of Bacau Outcross is what i would use. the seed coat pattern is pretty common from what i've experienced and also the beans that...

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...

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

I love the hat @Blue-Jay !! 💙 Sorry to hear about your bush beans. Not the best bean season for anybody it seems.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Out of your list, there are several I haven’t grown but a couple stood out. One was Old Joe Clark which I’ve also found particularly...

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

Yikes is it cold. 🥶 With a turtleneck and a hoodie I'm still cold out there, it was 13C/55F today. Miserable. But it's going to warm up...