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Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 43 Pale Grey Lavender - Pole Dry. I got this bean from Guy Dirix in 2018 and it's been a favorite of mine since. Sometimes it does well and sometimes not. I think it's the season or the soil. This past summer I planted a 16 foot row of the bean in one of my...

I had ordered some of Curt Burroughs limas from Sandhill only when I couldn't get them from Curt anymore. Curt is the Iowa lima breeder who really isn't active with his lima beans anymore. Curt has told me he gave Glen Drowns of Sandhill a sample of his beautiful limas. Glen lost every one of...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 42 Occio Della Madonna - Pole Dry. One of 18 bean varieties received from a grower in Valpiano, Italy in 2019. This bean seems like one of the productive ones of that group. 8 plants in 2025 produced just over 1.5 pounds of beans (708 g). Old U.S. Pinto - Pole...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 42 Nwambili - Pole Dry. A very good producing bean. 8 plants gave me nearly 1.5 pounds of beans (643 g). Sent to me in 2015 by Joseph Simcox. The bean comes from the southern regions of Africa. Beauty and productivity all rolled into one. Oak Grove - Pole Dry...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 41 Night Sky - Pole Dry. From a Canadain grower who got it from a friend. All the best seed I could pick out of it's seed crop is in the photo. It will be grown again in 2026. I like this beans appearnce. I think it's a very handsome bean. Fairly large seed as...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 41 Nasieddu - Pole Dry. From Valpiano, Italy. Now we have discovered that Nasieddu translates as "Little Nose". The beans origin is likely the upper Val d’Agri valley in Basilicata, southern Italy along with all the other Nasieddu beans shown previously. About...

I think that all bean varieties contain a large variety of genes. It just depends on what crosses with what variety and what genes finally wind up making pairs which shows up in the seed coat colors and patterns you get. Colors and patterns are very repeatable. When I first discovered the...

I used the link you provided to get into this website. https://enciclopediadeiprodottitipici.it/prodotto/fagioli-di-sarconi-nasieddu-viola/, When I clicked on the encyclopedia tab on top of the page what came up was the item you are looking for isn't available. However if i change that link and...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 40 Nasieddu Rosso - Pole Dry. From Valpiano, Italy. I have no deep history of these Italian beans that come from a grower in Italy. This beans production this past year was below average but a little above the poorer performing beans. Nasieddu Viola- Pole Dry...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 40 Nassieddu Marrone - Pole Dry. From Valpiano, Italy. This bean did not produce so well in 2025. I will probably regrow all the low producing beans in a different location sometime. Although not this year. Nassieddu Pansaredda - Pole Dry. From Valpiano, Italy...

Would you like to change the name to what you found on Guy Dirix's website? Turkey 1 was rather generic wasn't it. I didn't much like the number in the name really. It does seem that Turkey was so generic that it probably wasn't right. This fellow who I got it from in Kentucky if he had...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 39 Musanze Cranberry - Pole Dry. This is part of the 35 pound stash of beans from Joseph Simcox that I picked up at Karen Goldens's house in Highland, Michigan a couple of years ago. I picked this one out of the freezer last spring labeled as Musanti Rwanda. That's...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 39 Munachedda Rosa - Pole Dry - Another bean grown in 2025 from Valpiano, Italy. Actually I grew Munachedda Rossa which mean red with doulble S. I got this light red bean out the grow out so I call this one Rosa or Rose with the single S. I wound up with more Rosa...

I'm not sure I would ask you to go through that trouble. Your off type seed look a bit different than what I had this past year.

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 38 Munacheda Nera - Pole Dry. I acquired this bean from a grower in Valpiano, Italy. Productivity wasn't terrible but it wasn't great either. Maybe it was the season. I must say though I took this bean to two seed swaps and it was getting some notice. Munachedda...

I discovered something that made be a bid sad yesterday afternoon. I had stated that the Milky Way off type seed look like such good quality that it would probably be worth growing it out. Well I couldn't find the seed yesterday. I looked at my freezer list. When into the box where I stored the...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 37 Mrs. Martin's Heir - Bush Lima. I recieved this bean from my Lima breeding contact in Iowa in 2019. Previously I had never noticed any of his beans being anything but pole types. Perhaps he had it on his seed packet when he sent me this bean marked as a bush but...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 37 Monachelle di Norcia - Pole Dry. From a grower in Valpiano, Italy. Not too bad in the productivity department but it didn't set any records. Enought beans to fill 4 - 3 x 4 ziploc baggies. The seed coat pattern reminds me of Hobb's Goose. Mr. Tung - Pole Green...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 37 Missouri Wonder - Pole Green Snap - First introduced to the seed trade in the 1930s. Grown in Cornfields and made a good stringless snap bean and the dry beans for consumption as well. The dry seed looks just like a Pinto bean. Baker Creek used to offer this...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 37 Mother Earth - Pole Dry - From Native Seed Keeper Stephen McComber who lives in Ontario somewhere gave me this bean in 2017. This years grow out was quite a surprise but also terrifically productive. 8 plants gave me nearly 2 pounds of beans (863 grams) The one...