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Blue Spitball - Pole Dry - I was at the 2019 Appalachian Seed in Pikeville, Kentucky. After the swap all of us vendors met in the hotel lobby that we were staying at to socialize. Joseph Simcox was there that year and he brought a bag of beans that a lot of people were picking seed out of. I...

It was a pumpkin crossed with an acron squash.

Cliff Dweller - Pole Lima. Left Photo. The name would suggest that the bean may have been grown by the Cliff Dwelling people of the southwest U.S. Otherwise I can not find any history of this bean. Sent to me in 2019 by a man who had a lima collection while he lived in Iowa. This years grower is...

Karachaganak - Semi Runner Dry. Left photo. This bean was stablized and named by Jerry Maddox who now lives in Louisiana. It was one of 7 segregations from one of the 52 packets of outcrossed beans that I got from Will Bonsall in 2015. I sent out about half the outcrossed packets to other people...

I got information about J. Carroll's West Virginia lima bean on Facebook that I posted in post #1079. I believe I have pieced together the modern history of this bean. A fellow on our seed swap circut John Woodworth his neighbor since 1993 was Jimmy O'dell Carroll in Gate City, Virginia. Jim...

Jesse Fiske - Bush Dry. Left Photo. Pre-1740’s variety. The bean was brought originally by a Jesse Fisk who emigrated from England in the 1740’s to Charleston, New Hampshire. I acquired this bean from a grower in Blyth, Ontario. This years grower is from Seattle, Washington. Joyce Fetterly's...

It's amazing the amount people all over the world that love beans. Like collecting them and growing them and eating them. They are actually also possibly keeping varieties from going extinct by doing all the growing, sharing and collecting. I thought about posting my beans on instagram too...

Inca Pea - Pole Dry. Left Photo. If you remember me mentioning the 30 pounds of Joseph Simcox beans I picked up in February in 2022. This is one of the survivors that has been refreshed a little this year. There was another one I had posted earlier maybe two weeks ago called Menenga that wound...

Headrick Greasy Cutshort - Pole. Left Photo. Appalachian variety. Very productive. This is another bean that I got from the Remy Orlowski collection Via Karen Golden of Highland, Michigan in 2022. This years grower is from Mason, Michigan. Ice - Semi Runner. Right photo. Very light green pods...

Yay ! The Canadian mail strike might be over. That's good news. That was a long one.

Gopher - Pole Left Photo. Another of the Will Bonsall crosses. This years grow out also contained a similar pattern but a lighter shade. This bean was named in 2016 by Amanda Winland, of Mount Alto, West Virginia. Still not totaly stable. This years grow was from De Soto, Wisconsin. Grape -...

Galloway - Pole Dry. Left Photo. This bean came from one of the outcrossed beans that Will Bonsall sent to me in 2015 . I named this one in 2017. Some of the Galloway samples that I grow or send out come back with only one off type. Some of the seed samples don't have any off types after growing...

No problem. I just wanted to verify that I wasn't going out of my mind.

@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...