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Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 48 Stevenson's Blue Eye - Semi Runner Dry - (Photo Left) An original bean by former member of the Seed Savers Exchange the late Ralph Stevenson of Tekonsha, Michigan. Founder of SSE and I went and visited Raplh in July of 1981 at his home. I loved his beautifully...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 48 Son's Of Thunder - Pole Lima. This is an interesting looking lima bred by my lima fellow in Iowa. He sent it to me in 2016 and this past summer was the fourth time I've grown it. I don't know if I have ever shown the bean. It looks like it's got some Ping Zebra...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 48 Solwezi - Pole Dry (Photo Left). This bean was a heavy producer 8 plants over 2 pounds (938 g). The bean comes from a South African donor in 2013. Most of the beans were this shade and pattern Solwezi Gray - Pole Dry - (Photo Right) I got some beautiful...

I dislike bubble pack envelopes. When I send them out from our post office I can guarantee nothing but crushed beans like crushed ice. Everything I send goes in a box even if it's only one packet.

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 47 Sloveen - Bush Dry. (Photo Left) I don't particularly like numbers in bean names. This bean was previously Slovenia II. Probably named by Joseph Simcox. It didn't produce well this past summer as I thought it was a pole bean and planted it among pole beans. It...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 47 September Blue - Pole Snap Dry ? (Photo Left). This bean is a segregation of one of the bean in one of the Will Bonsall packets of outcrossed seed. I've been growing this bean from time to time since 2015. It's seed mother had tan seed. Another of the beans that...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 47 Seda Kravicka - Pole Dry. (Photo Left). Obtained from a grower in the Czech Republic in 2020. The bean grew well and produced about the average amount of seed of good quality. It's name means "Grey Cow". Seminole - Bush Green Snap. (Photo Right). The bean...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 46 San Fiarce - Pole Snap. The bean was sent to me by @ruralmamma in the fall of 2024. Nicely productive. Good quality of seed. It did seem that I couldn't let the pods get much beyond 5 inches as it seemed stringy to me. Schneebohne - Pole Dry. Thankfully...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 46 Rose - Pole Snap. Said to be a snap bean grown by the Rose family in Panola, Madison county Kentucky. Nicely productive and an Ohio Pole look-a-like. Sacre Bleu - Semi Runner. A bean developed by Lisa Bloodnick of Appalachin, New York through a selection...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 46 Rio Zape - Semi Runner. Previous seasons allowed me to just grow small amounts of seed. Pods were always dried indoors mostly green. This past summers extended warmth and sunshine allowed for nearly all the pods to dry on the vine. The quality of the seed was...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 45 Red Marbles - Pole Dry. From my bean friend in Liebenfels, Austrian 2013. This bean gave me enough seed for a photo. Some future year I will grow it again. Red Valentine - Bush Snap. This bean has also been traded a lot in the early days of Seed Savers...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 45 Reade Krobbe - Bush Dry. This bean comes from Jannes Aalders of Groningen, The Netherlands in 2013. In The Netherlands the bean is know as a Friesian Heirloom. It comes from the Friesian forest region of the country. This was another of the beans that struggled...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 45 Princes Rose - Bush Dry. One of Robert Lobitz's original named beans. I didn't get a lot of good quality seed of this bean in 2025. This bean does I've noticed produce a bit better quality of seed than it's counter part Prince Purple. Rabbits Foot 7. Bush Dry...

My growing of Pinktip Greasy to maturity might have been a gift from nature too. We had an extended summer. Normal first frosts here are around the 5th of October. By the 15th of October we were still experiencing 80 F weather. I don't remember when we got a really good first frost but it was...

Yes I'm able to grow Pinktip Greasy all the way to maturity. Have you tried them at your place yet?

I'm very happy that you got the correct tracking number. Hope you get your package and it works out well for you.

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 44 Pistrick 198B - Pole Dry. This beautiful two-toned bean—white and yellow was brought back from a Romanian village by Dr. Klaus Pistrick a curator at the renowned IPK genebank in Gatersleben, Germany during an expedition. Late maturing but said to be very...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 44 Piros Feher - Semi Runner. It's a Hugarian bean that I purchase from Heritage Harvest seeds in Canada in 2011. Those were the days when the company was still willing to ship beans to the U.S. It usually produces fairly well. It did produced ok this past summer...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 44 Pawnee - Bush Dry - This is one of my original beans from the early 1980's I discovered it in solid brown seed bush bean called Brown Kidney, Pawnee needs to be either grown in soil with lots of organic matter or just the right soil for it to display itself at...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 43 Piatella - Pole Dry - This bean came to me from Joseph Simcox in 2015. A beautiful flattened dry bean. It has a long history in Italian cuisine. Very productive. This past summer 7 plants produced just under 2 pounds of beans (850 G). Peinsipps Zwefarbage -...