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Oh, I very much encourage crossing in my mixed beans and get crosses all the time. I don't much keep track of them in the mixed patch, just make sure any obvious new ones get planted the next year. I'v noticed the bees are not random, they don't fly around willy nilly but very methodically visit...

I love all those off-types and their segragations. I remember years ago when I first read Susan Ashworth's "Seed to Seed" I got so discouraged about seed saving with all the rules on purity, isolation and inbreeding. My gardens just aren't that big so for awhile I thought I couldn't really save...

Here is my list of beans I want to grow next year but I also want to get some new ones so may have to trim it down some. H = Heirloom (these are ones I generally grow in semi-isolation) SO = Stabilized Off-Type US = Unstable Off-Type M = Diverse Mix of pure varieties and crosses SO- Hoosier...

I have some of those Armenian Giant around here somewhere. If I remember right they are good snaps but have to be picked when only six inches or so or they are fibrous. Also if I remember right they take a long time to mature. Those Black Nightfall look interesting, would like to get some of...

@Bluejay77, thank you for these photo reports, I really enjoy seeing them. Makes me want to get a little better at tracking and documenting record keeping myself.

My late planted Refugee beans have been producing well for last couple weeks and having plenty of seed from the earlier patch we've been eating them all. The flavor is absolutely outstanding in my opinion. The woman likes them too and she is generally more partial to, for lack of a better word...

I also used to hand code but all the testing and tweaking just takes too long. I was working too much on time I couldn't really bill for. So I switched my customers to online editors like Wix and Weebly.

My computers are running Windows 10. I usually use Goggle Chrome as my browser. I do web sites for a couple small businesses and feel your pain on getting a site to look the same across all the jillions of computer systems and versions, not to mention I-pads and smart phones. Do you use an...

@Bluejay77, I'll take some pic @Bluejay77, I'll take some pictures and you can help decide about the Red Wolf. All plants that survived the deer attack and drought to make seeds are climbing vines. Question is whether or not some are Red Wolf. I think some are but the color is significantly...

Well, I'm gonna carry on about the Refugee beans again. Love em. First got them from Russ in 2017, they looked like the ones on the right in the picture below and the two to the left grew as off types that year. i'm not 100% sure about the "small flat" they may just have been an environmental...

I don't do anything special as far as trying to tailor soil or conditions to any specific variety of anything. I used to fuss over such things but I got tired of that years ago. Now basically it grows in my dirt under my care habits or it doesn't. That said I do pamper network beans a little...

My network beans have been setting around unsealed for a couple weeks or more and before that another couple weeks in paper bags in front of a fan. I don't like to actually seal the bags till ready to send cause I think the less the zip lock bags are opened and closed, the better. I'll be...

Hadn't dropped in to catch up in a while, enjoyed see the new photos and reading the grow reports. Things been busy here, weather is awful. HOT HOT and dry. Been meaning to get some pictures of my own up and will do so pretty soon. All but one of my network beans are dried down and ready to...

I'm kinda bummed out. A stupid deer jumped the fence to the back garden and trimmed the leaves and small beans on a lot of my plants. I think most will recover, assuming I shoot that stupid deer which I fully intend to do. Even worse it ate ALL the leaves and little fruit clusters on one of my...

@Michael Lusk , thanks! They are pretty beans, they rival runners for flowers and attracting humming birds. I only have a few back up seed right now but I'm doing a pretty good sized grow out this year so hope to have plenty to share later on.

I'm enjoying seeing everyone's pictures. I have a couple I'll post here in a minute too and intend to get some of the network and others taken in next few days. My beans were all up and going by first of June when it turned wet, wet, wet and cool. We had over 14 inches of rain from June, 1 to...

Not 100% sure about the Red Wolf. A lot of beans are not doing much climbing, even ones I know should be. We've had 15 inches of rain and not a single full day of sun this month. Things are growing but slowly. My beans and other vegetables are taller and ahead of the weeds but starting to get...

I planted in similarly iffy weather back in early May expecting hot dry to move on in and it did. Now in June it has turned cool and very wet. About 10 inches of rain since first of month and very little sunshine. More rain predicted in next few days. Most plantings are well along with several...

There seems to be variation in the growth type in my Karachaganack even with just a few plants. I don't recall any differences in the seed I planted but I wasn't expecting any so wasn't on the look out for it. Anyway, all were slow to climb and so far some still are not. My off-type Refugee...

@flowerbug, I find descriptions of grow habit are generally unreliable. I'v grown a lot of beans, both pole and those described as 1/2 runner tend to be BIG vines in my garden. I have occasionally seen a bean that wants to vine but won't climb, I cull those out. I never saw what I had wanted...