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Two new beans for me this year. Falsetti pole dry on the left. Very productive. Cranberry type with slight pink base color and grayish black speckles and stripes. Flor de Junio. Right photo. Flower of June. The coloring on this bean kind of reminds me of Tamarahumara Purple Ojos. Falsetti -...

Conntecticut Wonder - Pole Snap 60 to 70 days. White blossom, green pods. The original steward of Connecticut Wonder Reverend Frank Abbott told his granddaughter Deborah, that the beans were a gift from the bees, the result of cross pollinated plants in his Bolton, Connecticut garden somtime...

Cascade Giant. Grown in 2024. This is a snap bean and new to me. All I can tell you is what I read about the bean. Long thin stringless pods striped with purple. The variety is said to be mosaic resistant. Said to be an improved version of Oregon Giant. Cherokee Trail Of Tears is said to be...

Hi welcome and glad you have found us. Hope you will be here often. I think you can ask the bean growers here what seems early or you can try out varieties and see what works for your area. You can also do what some of us do and that is start beans in small containers in some type of growing...

Bregenzer 2024. I had aquired this bean from a bean friend in Liebenfels, Austria 10 years ago this year. I love the bean it produces nice quality seed in a decent growing season. Candy 2024 is one of my orignal named beans from 1982. Wow ! 42 years ago already. Discovered the bean in a grow out...

You have harvested and dried beans at nearly the schedule as we have here in northern Illinois and Iowa. My beans this year were grown in Stanwood, Iowa which is southern Iowa but nearly straight west of me. This past week I've been packaging and tucking the beans away in my freezers. I don't...

Bobolink is a bean that I have known since the late 1970's. John Withee of his Wanigan Network fame collected the bean from someone in the state of Maine. Even today one of the Seed Savers Exchange listers is from Maine. I think this might be a genuine Maine bean. I have received steady requests...

Blue Jay's Bean Show Day #2 I hadn't grown Blue Shaxamaxon in a couple of years and was nearly out of the bean through fairly steady request. My Stanwood, Iowa grower's seed looks like it turned out larger that what I had grown previously. The second bean Bogen turned out really nice this year...

I listened to it today.Thank you very much for that. Pretty neat. Me and my Blue Jay bean (sweet child of the sun) are now in song. Wow ! who would have ever thought my Blue Jay bean would rise to these heights LOL ! I watched the Tutorial on YouTube last night and the guy puts lryics...

I'm jealous I want a song LOL ! Really actually that is really neat. I loved the song, catchy and lyrics I thought are brilliant.

Thank you heirloomgal. It's a pretty neat feeling when I accidentally come across a small seed company selling maybe one or two of my original beans. Sometimes someone from maybe in Europe and the person doesn't know me will post a bean on Facebook of what they grew the past season. It will be...

Blue Jay's 2024 Bean Show Blue Jay is going to have his end of summer bean show after all. Even though I couldn't garden this year. I have a Seed Savers Exchange friend in Stanwood, Iowa who said he would grow pole beans for me. So I sent him the seed of pole beans I was getting low on and he...

Need to give a big welcome to our bean world here to @Million Bells, @Dahlia, and @heartsong111. Glad to have you here and hope you come often.

Have you dried beans like this before. Just don't get the temperatures of your seed up there at 130 to 135 F. At those temps your seed dies.

My California donor tells me it's a steady cropper. Suppossedly a form of white Navy beans and can also be used as a snap bean. French in origin. That is the full extent of what this fellow wrote on the envelope that the seed came in.

I recently saw a bean that a lady from BC Canada posted on Facebook. I wanted some them to grow so I asked her if she would do a trade and she did. I got 10 seeds of this bean she found in something else which I can't remember what. She calls the bean Margot. I just thought it has such a neat...

Oh my gosh is that a beautiful blue! Do you get any that have a hint of tan in them?

@heirloomgal, I'll just let you be the judge of what you want to return new seed of and what you want to regrow next year. I also could send you some Ilene beans for next year. You are very conscientious and grow some of the nicest seeds that anyone would want to gaze upon. Not to worry, no...

Did someone mention that certain bean pods like Cresnjevec are hard to hand shell? I found a way this morning to make the Cresnjevec pods pretty much just unzip right open. you hold the pods left hand at the top and right hand at the other end of the pod. Then at the same time twist the hands in...

If you want Network beans to grow or you want to get into those unnamed beans. All you have to do is email me at upadam@comcast.net. Let me know what you want to grow. I also have named beans that are not on the network pages. You perhaps might be interested to those also. What ever number of...