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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...

This has been one of my favorites since I first acquired and grew Cresnjevec. Very productive. A beautiful color and produces excellent quality beans. A real gem. Love the photos that should make a bean lover just droll with excitment.

I have planted a tomato plant in front of my house. I plant pole beans in my south flower bed. I have a neighbor who was born and raised in Stuttgart. She tells me that is very European. Nothing wrong with it. Europeans don't waste space when growing their garden plants. They'll plant veggies...

What can you imagine that this bean guy is doing this weekend and for probably a number of days ahead? Well packing tomato seeds in 2 x 3 inch ziplocs. A guy I know named Jim in Stanwood, Iowa got tomato seed from @heirloomgal. He grew them this summer. Fermented, cleaned and dried them. He...

Tonight will likely be our first frost as we have a freeze warning for tonight and Wednesday overnight into Thursday morning. The 2024 bean season will be over here in northern Illinois.

I did have just a little garden fun this summer. l got to watch volunteer pumpkin, volunteer acorn squash, and volunteer tomato plants grow in one of my small back yard plots. The fellow who owns the property where I have an offsite bean plot grew pumpkins and acorn squashes last year and he...

@heirloomgal This is exactly what she wrote. Looking for something really interesting pod wise; no stripes; but an interesting colour – a snap is best and a pole or bush bean will be fine.

@heirloomgal What different colored pods have you found in all the beans you have grown. Pods just with solid color and no stripes or streaking. A farm woman in Blyth that I think both you and I know wants pods with different colors other than green and without the purple and red streaks. I...