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Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 7 Bigarrada Gris Negre - Pole Dry. A Catalonian heirloom from Spain. To say this bean is productive is an understatment. I'm not sure I have another bean that produces like this one does. On top of it's super productivity the bean is beautiful. Obtained this bean...

Your Paula looks so very nice. I am going to try to grow it this summer. I haven't done a grow out on it since about 2018. Did you try eating any of the geen pods? RL described the bean as a green snap.

Here is the Little Falls. I sent to Artorious. I think I discovered Little Falls about 7 or 8 years ago. Little Falls - Bush Dry

Wow ! That's a beauty. Were you able to purchase it somewhere?

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 6 Bela Putersnica - Pole Dry. This bean did not do well this summer. I got some seeds where the colored area of the seed tended towards blue and some that tended toward the color tan. Big Dipper - Pole Dry. This bean has grown well for me in previous years but...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 5 Batumi Silk - Pole Dry. This is one of the many beans brought to North America by world seed hunter and traveler Jospeh Simcox. This beans origin is the country of Georgia and was probably purchased at a market in Batumi. Vines were decently productive probably...

Some of the very poor producing beans I might consider weeding them out of the collection and eating them.

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 4 Batumi Georgia - Pole Dry. This bean also didn't produce much seed but got back the same seed that was planted. I wonder if these beans just didn't have good vigor to produce much seed because of the seeds age. however now I am able to see what the seed looks...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 4 Aunt Jeans Pole Dry Snap. Suppossedly a Canadian heirloom can be used for both fresh eating and dry. This bean did not do well at all. It produced decent seed but only a handfull or two. It wasn't happy about something. Badda Nera - This bean was sourced in...

I have a network grower in Germany that I have not hear from at all. The network grower I have in France messaged me and said he could not mail his package to me because nothing is normal. That was his characterization. I am just assuming it had to do with tariffs.

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 3 Algonquin - Pole Dry. This bean came out of a packet of seed in 2015 from Will Bonsall (The Scattered Seed Project). In the packet was also Hiawatha. They both were said to be off types of Norridgwock. I found both of them to be stable when grown and all I had to...

That bean raises a big Wow in me! What a beauty. Very similar to Bomba but much richer stronger color. I have been told somewhere along the way that there are a lot of interesting beans in Latvia.

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 2 Appaloosa - Bush Dry. Having last grown this bean in 2021 I originally obtained the bean from Full Circle Seeds in BC Canada in 2012. Considering the growing season this year. the bean didn't do too badly. It produced 12.30 ounces of seed from about 13 plants...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 2 Alice Sunshine hadn't been grown since 2025. Grown in my backyard plot it did very well and produced some of the nicest seed of the bean I had grown. Approximately 20 plants produce 1 pound 1.55 ounces (497 g). This is one of Robert Lobitz's green snap beans...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show I grew one of Artur's beans this year. The 1500 Year Old Cave. 8 plants produce about 2.5 pounds (1.1 kg) of beans. I would call that very productive. The 1500 year Old Cave bean will be on the commercial pages of my website eventually. Then some beans did just the...

I've taken a couple experimanteal photos with the new camera and it looks good. I've ordered a cable that will allow me to hook the camera up to my desk top and I have downloaded the app from Canon for this camera. I'm not going to play around with the camera on the phone. It did seem though...

heirloogal, don't send that seed back to me as I'm not going to be any better at trying to get them to grow than you. However now I know what happened to it. Many of these Simcox beans sat in the basement of a lady who knows Joe. They sat for several years and who knows how old they were when...

Over the weekend I was feeling a little bumbed out. I spent a number of days taking bean photos in January and this month of February with my phones camera. I had used a 2003 era Canon PowerShot G3 4 mega pixel for all my website and photos posted here for years. Even when the orignal camera...

I just wonder if semi pole is what I would call a semi runner. I plant them on 8 foot long 4 foot wide handy panels from Tracktor Supply Store. I support them with wooden steaks that have a point cut on one end. I use 1 x 2 inch furing strips. I cut the strips to about 4 feet tall. Drive them...

I will update the website if I can catch up with the orders for awhile. Actually I haven't even started yet to update the website. It's been crazy busy. I haven't even done my annual bean show here. The round seeded Red Valentine will be available. You should sit tight. When I get the new beans...