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@Ridgerunner I don't know what you mean about I didn't send the bean. This years grower of this bean I'm sure got their sample of the plum colored bean from me. This grower from Maine hasn't grown beans for me before this year. Can you elaborate. I must of had this bean because you sent me the...

Frost - Pole Dry. Left Photo. A pre 1796 bean I acquired from a grower in Bozeman, Montana in 2018. I wonder if the bean has been used as a snap bean. The idea of it's name is that it produces until frost in the autumn hence it's name. Previous to this year I sent this bean out to growers seven...

Elder - Pole Dry. Left Photo. This bean is a segregation of the Will Bonsall collection I received in 2015. In 2015 this segregation did not exist yet. This bean is on a newer copy of my spreadsheet as WB-PKT #27.8. My older spread sheet goes to WB-PKT #27.3. Jerry Maddox who now lives in...

Dixie Speckled Butterpea - Bush Lima. Photo Left. Productive small lima. This bean came from Remy Orlowski's Sample Seed shop after her passing via Karen Golden of Highland, Michigan in 2022. This years network grower was from Mason, Michigan Drabo - Bush Dry Left Photo. Bean from Switzerland...

Corbett Refugee - Bush Snap. Photo Left. Round green pods. I acquired this American bean from a fellow in Australia in 2014. I believe this fellow acquired this bean from the Australian Seed Bank. This bean was selected out of a field of plants that survived an infection of Common Bean Mosaic...

Chocolate - Bush Dry. Left Photo. This bean comes from a school gardening project in Belfast, Maine in 2012. Coco Sophie - Pole Dry. Right Photo. 6-7 foot vines. Pods 4-5 inches long, flattened and straight to slightly curved. Flowers white. 5-6 white, egg-shaped seeds per pod. Dates to...

Cannellini - Bush Dry - Left Photo. The Italian equivilant of a white kidney. White beans are mild in flavor and often thinken the water they are being cooked in. This years grower was from Gonsalez, Louisiana. Cerna Tanecnice - Pole Dry- Right Photo. I don't know much about this bean except...

I think I'll take a pass on this. I don't want anything that is self seeding. I think I will stick to my Zinnias.

I was baking the Acorn squash the same way. After the pieces cooled down I scraped the soft meat of the squash out with a large spoon. But it in a bowl added some butter and a little brown sugar and mashed and mixed it all up with a potato masher. Put the fisnished product in quart containers...

I got these Acorn squash seeds last year out of an acorn squash. The peron that grew these acrons also grew some variety of pumpkins close by. I cleaned out the acorn squashes last year and threw the skins the seeds out in one of the backyard garden plots. Mild weather in February and I got the...

What is this and is it planted from seed? Is it an annual? What does it look like and how large does it grow?

Blue Coco - Pole Snap. Left Photo. Purple poddes snap bean in about 72 days. Can be harvested at 3" as filet beans, remain tender to 5" without getting stringy. Supposedly tolerant of both heat and drought. French heirloom with likely primary origin in the Rio Coco area of Nicaragua and...

Blue Speckled Tepary- Prostrate. Left photo. Adapted to the desert southwest. They will grow on as little as 2 inches of annual rainfall. They will grow in more humid climates and will produce more foliage given more water. I acquired this bean in 2013 from Marshall Smyth of Potter Valley...

You might want to try spacing your rows at about 8 feet (244 cm) apart and in the middle 4 feet (122 cm) plant a row of flowers like Zinnias. The flower pollen might dilute the bean pollen enough to cut down on crossing a lot. I save my Zinnia seed for planting with beans. I once was looking...

Belgische Suppenbohne - Pole Dry. Left Photo. Interprets into English as Belgian Soup Bean. I acquired this one from my Austrian bean friend in Liebenfels in 2015. This years Network grower turned in beautiful seed. It was grown in De Soto, Wisconsin. Blaugraue - Pole Dry. Suppossedly a blue...

Barry Island - Pole - Left Photo. Network Bean. I'm not sure of the beans useage. I acquired this bean from Annette Barley of Nanaimo, British Columbia in 2016. This years grow out was done by a Network grower in Auburn, Indiana. This grower always turns in nice quality seed. Batumi Giant -...

Alma's Pa - Network Bean. Pole Lima. Left Photo. Dark purple almost black looking seed. Very productive. This bean has been grown by the Pennsylvania Dutch in southeast and south central Pennsylvania. Originally collected this bean from a fellow in Kingston, Masschusetts. Grown this summer by a...

I thought it would be fun to post all the Network beans that have come in so far. I spent all day yesterday photoing these beans. Anakin Kuvalli Giant - Pole Dry. Left Photo. This was a bean that Joseph Simcox brought into the country from Europe. I think Bevin Cohen of the Small House farm in...

A couple of years ago Guy Dirix posted a photo of Pawnee he had grown in soil where he mixed in a lot of compost. So he raised the organic matter. His Pawnee when he harvested the seed had lot of white with a decent size brown patch around the eye and small spotting more than what I get when I...

Vermont Mohawk - Pole Dry. Left Photo. The last two grow outs I had trouble getting any volume of seed out it, but the seed that was produced was excellent in quality, just a very small amount. This year the big harvest happened. It again produed nice quality beans. Native American bean given to...