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Osborne & Clyde - Pole Dry. Left Photo. I have grown this bean as far back as 1980. It produces two different colors with the same pattern. The bean is very productive and produced a good size crop this year. 8 plants produced 17.85 ounces (506 gm). Oude Sloveense - Right Photo. Pole snap bean...

The decrease in bean offerings could have something to do with some of their harvests not working out. There could also be a drop off in grower contracts for some reason. Dropping some varieties from their offerings could also be due to a drop in customer interest in some varieties. Vegetables...

Were you part of the Network this past summer?. If you want to send it I would say ok and a big thank you. With as much seed as I have here it makes me feel that I shouldn't have it. I feel sometimes like I'm taking away from someone that maybe doesn't have as much as I do. If you do send them I...

Mbombo Green - Pole Dry Snap. Right Photo. The bean was nicely productive this past summer. This unique green colored seed can be used in soups or pods can be eaten as a green vegetable. The variety originates in Kenya Africa. To the people of the Kuba tribe Mbombo is associated with the Creator...

Lynnfield - Pole dry right photo. Large beans. My growing of this bean goes back to probably 1978. John Withee who's oranization of Wanigan Associates was operated out of his home in guess. Where else but Lynnfield, Massachusetts. He described Lynnfield as a selection from Lila Stuart that has...

Lazy - Pole Snap left photo. It was given to me as Lazy Wife but this is not the original Lazy Wife so I'm going to call it Lazy. The original Lazy Wife is a nearly round and glossy, but in the 1980's a white kidney shaped bean was marketed. The flavor of this bean was not of the orginal...

Well thank you for the compliment. I think my notes could be even more detailed. I do try to keep track of where I obtain a bean and when. I also keep a record of my harvest of seed each year. Sometimes I can just remember things about some of the beans. Sometimes I take photos of green and dry...

Not necessarily. Sometimes I will pick out a bean from the network that I think might sell well on the sales pages and grow it out so there is a large quantity here and put it on the sale pages. Are you interested in buying something you see on the network pages? If there is something on the...

Khabarovsk - Pole dry. Left photo. I had received the variety from a grower in Ohio in 2015. My first grow out in 2015 was wonderful. After a disappointing season in 2022 were the seed was so terrible I didn't save any of it. My 2023 grow out of 8 plants produced only 1 ounce (28 grams). I got...

Holy - Pole dry, left photo. I acquired this bean from the Central Tree Crop Research Trust of New Zealand in 2012. This year was the sixth grow out since 2012. Nice bean productive. Basically a white bean. Mild flavor if you want to stew them for some recipe. Italian - Pole Snap, right photo...

Do you mean how many do I grow in a single season? Do you mean how many I have total? I guess I can answer my own questions. I usually grow over a hundred varieties in a season. The number of beans I have in storage I could only estimate at around 1,400. Did that answer your question. All my...

I have never eaten the pretty white ones with the dark caps. I've sold them on my website and taken them to seed swaps and sold them there also. They were grown this year because I would be running out of them sometime.

Giant Nilgiri - Pole dry photo left. This bean came to me in 2018 from a grower in Pennsylvania. Large seed. The bean comes from the mountain region of Nilgiri, India also called the Blue Mountains. Hemelvaartboontje Pole Dry. Purchase this bean from DeaFlora in 2014 and have been happy growing...

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...