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Wow ! It sure looks like Turkey could this bean. The colors on the seed coat are formed in the same pattern and even the slight orange eye ring looks about the same and a little info about the bean too. I have never left the seed of Turkey out long enough at room temperature to see if it does...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 36 Milky Way - Pole Dry. From my Austrian bean friend in 2018. This year was my first grow out of the bean and it was very productive. It produced one off type with such nice quality seed that I think it will probably be worth growing out that off type. Milky Way...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 36 Mestia Svaneti - Pole Snap Dry?. This bean seems very similar to Lilaschecke. Seed color and pattern is similar and as I remember it also has yellow pods. It is one of the Joseph Simcox beans he collected in the country of Georgia. Midnight Blue - Semi Runner...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 35 Mascarade de Briel Roya - Pole Dry. This summer was the second time I grew this bean. The first time did not go so well. This past summer was better. 4 plants produced nearly a pound of seed (411 g). Acquired in a bean trade with a grower in Valpiano, Italy in...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 35 Margot - Bush Dry. The bean plants stayed very small low to the ground. Almost like they were trying to conserve water in a desert setting. However I wound up with more seed than I started with. A bean From Evan Knott who lives in BC Canada. Mariazeller -...

I'm curious where did you get this photo of a tan bean if the USDA says Ferrat are white.?

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 34 Malawi Green - Bush Dry. This bean comes to me from a grower in Little Chute, Wisconsin. I didn't pay attention when planting this bean and it was grown in the shadows of pole beans. So not a lot of seed production but I believe by the number of plants I had...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 34 Louisiana - Pole Snap. This has been one of my all time favorite snap beans since the early 1980's. I believe this bean has been grown by a Reverend in one of the Parishes in New Orleans. It is widely adapted. Highly productive of beautiful round green pods with...

The USDA websites have changed a very lot since 2016. I used to be able to click on a plant species like Phaseolus Vulgaris and it would then open to a page with all the accession numbers starting at the begining of the accessions. There were page number links at the bottom of the page to click...

Wow ! you are just buried. I haven't seen that much snow here since February 2, 2010 when we woke up in the morning to 2 feet of snow. You got another foot on top of that. Today we are expecting 77 F as our high 25 C and severe weather for most of this week. Just about on a daily basis.

I have no idea where Joseph collected the bean that I have of Ferrat in a packet. But I am just going to continue to go by what I have of this bean as it is. In 2016 I made a large donation of beans to this same seed bank. 168 varieties in all. I checked many of the entries they made of my...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 33 Little White Lion - Bush Dry. It struggled with the summer season so I still don't know how productive this bean might be. It comes out of another bean I have called White Lion which has a longer larger shaped seed. White Lion segregated from Goose Cranberry...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 33 Letcher County Fall - Pole Dry. Another productive Appalachian bean from Letcher County Kentucky. Quite rounded beans about the size of a Navy bean. I acquired the bean as part of a purchase I had made from the Appalachian Heirloom Plant Farm in Winchester, Ohio...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 33 Kroatische - Pole Dry. I like the pattern on this bean. There are some other European beans with this similar pattern in various colors. This bean being from Croatia. This bean struggled in my 2025 summer but produced a small amount of nice beans. I'm sure it...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 33 Kitoba - Pole Dry. I think this is a very pretty bean. I love the color. Very productive bean from Kenya. I acquired the bean in July of 2017 being sent to me by the young man in Kentucky who bred the bean Fountain Pitts Allen. Then I grew the bean for the...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 32 Karachaganak - Semi Runner Dry. Discovered in one of the Will Bonsall packets by our Little Easy Bean Network grower Ridgerunner in 2016 and named by him. The bean is stable. I can't vouch for it's productivity but I like it for it's seed color and pattern. The...

I keep the word bush added after it's name because there still is Karachaganak which is a semi runner. I grew both of them this past summer.

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 31 Junin - Bush Dry. Like a slightly smaller light red Kidney. I acquired this bean from a grower in Germany in March of 2013 and grew it for the first time that year. The plants in 2013 grew to 24 inches tall (60 cm). This past summer was the best crop of this...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 31 Iroquois Cornbread - Pole Dry. I thought this bean was a pole bean but I saw only one plant try to climb one of my poles this past summer. Most of the plants acted like a bush bush bean. Beautiful large kidney shaped red craanberry bean. Said to be native...

The beans in the photo are pretty true to what the color is actually, brown.