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Interesting. I’m wondering about the curly podded/Kipfler strains. I have the impression that the term kipfler is sometimes used specifically for a small number of variations from the Austria alps and sometimes used more generally for a larger number of curly beans from the wider alpine region...

I've had the same feeling this year about beans not being entirely straightforward or predictable. Not entirely the same weather patterns and less creature predation, but certainly some mysteriously reluctant to thrive. But peculiarly addictive nevertheless - or perhaps because of some challenge.

Sultan's Gold Crescent. Maybe not quite as curly as yours, @Branching Out ? So perhaps Anellino Giallo is more likely.

I also grew Freckles a couple of years ago from 2013 seed from @Blue-Jay . And had a similar or even greater contrast in seed coat colours but the other way round. I received very red seeds and produced much whiter seeds

Sultan’s Gold Crescent came immediately into my mind. I was hoping I had a photo but unfortunately not. Perhaps later today.

Hope this helps

In UK it’s quite easy to find a mix of open pollinated double flowering hollyhocks called Chaters Mix. I don’t know how easy they are to find in Canada. I’m not aware of any single colour double strains.

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 early and high yielding. But I have a different experience of Fat Man. I’m growing it this season - thank you! - and it’s only in flower now. I was thinking of it...

I very much like Bragançano too but I think of it as quite a late bean so I think yours is doing quite well to be producing now. For a number of years I grew it to have a snap bean for eating when many other varieties were past that stage and it worked well in that way.

An interesting exchange. I hadn’t realised sunflowers are prone to inbreeding depression. Thanks @heirloomgal. I have a liking for the bronze coloured sunflowers, the darker the better. They self-seed readily in my veg garden and I have quite a lot, so perhaps that mitigates any effect of...

I hope you don’t mind me stepping in here but I think the link doesn’t have all the information. This one might lead to the fuller page https://www.bohnen-atlas.de/sorten/b/2022-bela-putersnica Sorry of if I’ve created confusion though. Links are a bit chancy sometimes.

I can also confirm that I had pure white flowers last season from seed donated by P. Suckling. Thank you,P.S.

I grew Rose last year and found it to be late. I failed to harvest any good seed. I’m trying again this year and sowed it particularly early. I’ve been away for a couple of weeks so can’t report on progress but hoping for a good surprise when I return! I also found Succotash to be late but it...

Yes, I echo that and have had a similar experience. Perhaps not as many but certainly quite a few. I’m wondering about my planting mixture/mulches. Most of mine were transplants. I direct seeded only where I had a few losses due to a freak late frost.

A wonderful parade of colours, @Oxford . I love the unusually deep purple of Blue Adliswil. Worth growing for its flowers alone! I photographed yesterday what I thought was an unusually dusky pink in Princess flowers. It’s a little darker and deeper than it looks here.

Thank you @heirloomgal. That is very interesting. Did you receive any response from Prairie Garden Seed? The main diagnostic difference between Blue Gold, which you mentioned, and Wagner Blue Green seems to be the colour of the inside flesh which is red-yellow in Blue Gold and definitely green...

I’d love to be able to identify this mid-sized tomato. I received it several years ago labelled ‘Wagner Blue Berries’. I think this was a guess from a vague memory. As far as I’m aware, varieties with ‘berries’ in the name are Brad Gates, not Tom Wagner. The nearest I can get to a Wagner variety...

My instinct and horribly basic understanding of genetics suggest that you wouldn’t get separate strains but would have the same happen again from both batches, ie. pale flowers until the plant is moving into older age. A rather lovely thing to happen - two treats in one.

It is my experience too that it’s very early. It’s a favourite with me. I love its cheerful earliness and also very much like its lovely frosted seeds.

It looks a great crop. And I was about to ask the same question. In England there aren’t very many different varieties of garlic available, except for one well known source based on the Isle of Wight. But I don’t like the fact that they have selected and renamed all the varieties they offer...