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Wow all your beans are beautilful ! The beans that came out of the bush plants look just like Dana's Soldier.

Someone sent me a photo of an empty seed packet with the name on it. It is supposed to be a bush green bean.

@BeanieQueen, Have you ever heard of a German bush green bean called Karnick or Kenrick. Supposed to be pre 1800.

Hi BeanieQueen, I mailed you a package on January 23. Botosani Cylops, Holstein, Southwest Gold, Southwest Red, Sunrise, Tanzanian Grey, And Winterfare. Is that the package you wanting to recieve.

@heirloomgal Wow ! what a nice and professional looking seed display. I don't know when your seedy Saturday is but when it comes hope you do great and have a lot of fun meeting and talking to all your buyers. It is Sunday afternoon now and I'm back from the Central Indiana Seed Swap. It was a...

I think I'm quite good. In May, June, July, August I did a lot of walking a mile a day. I started back driving my mini van about the third week of June. Since then I've done all my own grocery shopping. I do my normal house cleaning myself. August through the end of October. I attended...

Eventually all this crazy stuff with machines being down and people being impatient will settle down and go away eventually. It's too bad it's been so crazy with the mail strike and all. It's unpleasant to have to put up with it but the winds of change will blow it all away. I'm not leaving...

Welcome @heartsong111. Nice to have you along. Send me an email at upadam@comcast.net and tell me that you want to grow the September blue and give me your name and address and I'll try to get those beans out to you soon.

The seed packets that contain seed that I send out are 2 x 3 inches or 5 x 7.62 cm. The larger return packets are 3 x 4 inches or 7.62 x 10.16 cm. The thickness of both sizes are 4 mil.

Oh @Triffid ! Those are such gorgeous beans all of them. So nice to gaze upon.

YES a very BIG YES ! Too much junk mail coming and for those who put it out cheap. I didn't mean to complain about the next postal increase coming 1-19-25. I can't mail package cheaper by any of the shipping companies. The postal rates a way, way cheaper than UPS, FedEx and the rest of them.

Guy Dirix from Belgium told me something interesting I wasn't aware of about the pole bean Veitch's climbing. According to U.P.Hedrick --Beans of NY-1931-pag.22-- 'Veitch's Climbing' is a synoniem of ‘Climbing French’, a climbing sport of the bush bean ‘Canadian Wonder'

We get little postal increases here sometime two or three times in a year. January 19,2025 the US postal service will increase the cost of all packages 3.2%. Little by little they keep chipping it up.

OMG what a time you had getting a package off in the mail ! I know those emotions you felt. I try to double check everything before I take off for the post office. Yes it would be something so easy if you were #51. Wouldn't have to mess around with all this USDA fiddly stuff. Packages I send you...

Do you have photos of your cattle panel arches when they are up and installed in your garden. It would be interesting to see that.

I would highly recommend anyone who starts to develop a seed collection that can not be regrown every 5 years should have freezer space for seed. When collections get big enough it's sometime easy to forget about a cultivar and lose it to age.

This Rio Zape is not the standard heirloom Rio Zape but was rebred by the University of California at Davis to be resistant to Mosaic virus. They also increased it's productivity by 20 per cent over it's heirloom parent. So I would like to see this one grown and to have an increase of it's seed.

Van Gogh's Olive - Semi Runner Dry. Left Photo. This bean was probably named by Joesph Simcox who collected the bean somewhere overseas. The inspiration for the name to me obviously comes from the painter Van Gogh and his paintings of olive trees. The bean itself is productive. This years...

As we begin our thirteenth year. I think of all the wonderful bean varieties and varieties of everything humans usually grow for themselves. All that we are blessed with today. How marvelous it is that we can experience them. I think if most of what we have today was if not saved in the past...

Tennessee Mountain Climber - Pole Snap. Left Photo. It was given to me at the 2022 Pikeville, Kentucky seed swap. I wonder if the bean is stringless. This years grower is from Mason, Michigan Tunny - Pole Dry. Photo right. I acquired this beautiful bean from Beans And Herbs in the UK. My...