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Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 14 Cherokee - Semi Runner Dry. In early September 2011 I was browsing on the internet and I clicked on a...

Beans with "amber" in their name grew very well last year. Maybe they sensed that amber is Polish gold :)

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 13 Cedar Lake - Bush Dry. A Robert Lobtiz original named bean. I grew it in 2023 and thought I would...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 12 Buxton Buckshot - Pole Dry. This bean is so similar to Seneca Bird Egg. Same seed, same looking pods...

And three more network beans. Amber Queen - Robert Lobitz bush bean. Purple Rain - another Robert Lobitz, very tall bush bean. As...

I learned something tonight about some beans that I've seen around, something I've always wondered. There's a company that sells...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 11 Brown Trout - Bush Dry. A bean that has been with me for over 40 years. Traded among Seed Saver...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 10 Blue Spitball - Pole Dry. Got this bean from one of our seed swap ladies about 6 years ago. It grew...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 9 Blue Jay - Bush Snap. I think a lot of bean people already know the story of Blue Jay. I have the need...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 8 Bird Egg Blue - Bush Dry. Surprisingly this bean did very well in a place where some beans I grew...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 7 Bigarrada Gris Negre - Pole Dry. A Catalonian heirloom from Spain. To say this bean is productive is an...

Here is the Little Falls. I sent to Artorious. I think I discovered Little Falls about 7 or 8 years ago. Little Falls - Bush Dry

Got a neat new bean called 'Jersey Pole'. Looks like a brown Vaquero. Planning to grow it this summer.

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 6 Bela Putersnica - Pole Dry. This bean did not do well this summer. I got some seeds where the colored...

Beans 2025 continued Laliberté - bush bean from Lothbinière, Quebec, Canada Schwarze Kugel - semi-runner, old German variety, very...