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The Polish Post has also temporarily suspended shipping to the US all items except correspondence and documents. Reason: many ambiguities and restrictions imposed by the US government and air carriers.

@heirloomgal, I install the first strings when the plants begin to branch out, and the next ones as they grow. I braid the first string around the plants, the next ones just tie them around. In the photo, Scala is only tied around. I simply ran out of string :)

Schwarze Kugel ready for harvest. I planted my Blue Jays a bit late, but September is supposed to be warm so I'm counting on a good crop. Scala bush wax. I got my seeds from Franchi Sementi, so I think it's an Italian variety. Or maybe Dutch, I'm not sure. It's an early bean, so I planted...

@Blue-Jay, can you write more about the Skunk River Trout bean that @oxbow farm showed?

That's right, I have several varieties of such beans from Italy and Austria, especially from the Steiermark / Styria region. This is what my 2023 Rassacher Kipfler looked like.

Some of my nicer looking beans :) Mountaineer White Half-Runner Lobitz's Purple Rain Pods of another Lobitz's bean. - Chaska Purple. They are wider and longer than those of Purple Rain Elektra is reliable as always.

In my case, such damage to the pods occurred after heavy rains following a period of drought. Too much water at once. Is your Mohawk a pole variant of Early Mohawk ?

@Oxford This year I also started mulching the soil around the beans with grass clippings to avoid damaging the roots when pulling out weeds. It's only 5 C (41 F) here this morning. It hasn't been this cold at this time of year for a long time. I just found the first dry pods on my bush beans...

The flower shoots of Mongeta del Ganxet Xic are getting larger. I think the flowers will open in three or four days. It seems this ecotype is indeed earlier than other Ganxets.

I'm asking because I've noticed that the plants whose roots I damaged while removing weeds and those heavily undermined by moles are dying. It appears that common beans are very sensitive to root damage at a certain stage of their growth. However, runner beans and limas never died out.

My Schwarze Kugel is a bush with short runners. I got the seeds from Austria. I didn't know there was a pole variant.

I have a Schwarze Kugel this year. It has been blooming for quite a while now and has a lot of pods. Tuvagliedda is just starting to bloom, as is Bonel di Fonzaso. I had all the Tuvaglieddas and of them all, the Tuvagliedda Marrone was the earliest to bloom. Correction, I didn't have the...

I had a similar experience. Succotash is a late-flowering bean, but I ended up harvesting a lot of nice seeds.

@heirloomgal Have you been pulling weeds around those dying beans?

Hello @Oxford ! Great photos.

@Blue-Jay, runners have appeared on one of my Blue Jays. I'm wondering if I should remove this plant. Is Blue Jay a true bush bean?

@heirloomgal Graziskiai #1 is a bean from Lithuania. I got it from a Polish seed bank.

This year, due to the forecast of an exceptionally cold May, I did not make seedlings. I wake up the seeds in a sprouter and when they have a solid sprout, I put them directly in the target location. I think this will reduce the possibility of the seeds rotting in the ground and the Delia fly...

Yesterday I put 27 pole beans and 10 semi/half-runner in the sprouter. Next week I will do the same with bush beans. So far May has been terribly cold, now the weather is supposed to change.

@Blue-Jay The description of Fin de Villeneuve on the IPK Gatersleben website states that it is a determinate bush bean. I also wonder if Tres Hatif de Massy from IPK Gatersleben is really this bean. Judging by the description of Vilmorin found on the internet, the shape of the seeds is different.