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This is a much better picture of Wren's Egg but still doesn't completely capture the beauty of the pods. Just happened to notice a yellowing Railroad pod and after looking closer, I found a handful of dried pods waiting to be harvested. That makes the fourth Network variety I've harvested to...

Harvest season has officially started. Yesterday it was the yellow-podded Ukrainian Comrades which has yellow seed instead of black like I suspected. So I'm assuming the green pods contain the black seed but they won't be ready for harvest for at least two weeks. Blue tip and Ottis/Otis...

Voles are enjoying my paste tomatoes but thankfully leaving the beans alone so far. Seems that I may have had a little bit of a cross in the garden last year as mom mentioned a purple-podded plant growing among her heirloom cutshort beans. Without a doubt it was likely a cross with Trionfo...

I'm growing Rose this year too and it's just starting to flower. Should have approximately two months until first frost, so keeping my fingers crossed.

Looks as if Blue tip and Ottis Stewart will be the first to harvest. Ukrainian Comrades is a mix of two different seeds. One produces yellow pods and is very prolific (thinking it may be the black seed) and the other one produces green pods and isn't very prolific at all. Never seem to have...

I've grown Succotash twice and both times it seemed to take a bit longer than most to bloom.

I lost a Wren's Egg plant early in the season and never discovered a reason why. A few weeks ago I had a Cold Creek plant in full bloom and starting to produce when suddenly half the leaves began to wither. Dug around and found no evidence of voles and stems were intact. Gave it some extra...

Avalon, which was labeled as a bush snap bean has towered and had to be redirected to keep from choking out the two tomatoes that share space with it. Runners are approximately 8' and it's every single plant. It's producing pods and is a good distance away from other beans. I have enough seed...

I have field bindweed/wild morning glory along the outside of my garden fence. It got a head start because of all the rain we had but then I noticed the rabbits chowing down on it and just left it. I figured if they liked eating it then maybe they'd settle for that instead of trying to find a...

This in the one extended weekend of the year when I actually work with hubby, so made my first trek to the gardens since Wednesday. Looks as if the first pole snap bean to harvest will be Blue Tip. The first bush dry bean will probably be Ukrainian Comrades followed by Wren's Egg. Dry pole...

I suspect they're best when the seeds are formed but relatively small. When i sampled them I didn't pick any that were overly large or had the appearance of being tough and still had some woody hulls. Hubby and I did pick the beans out of those hulls and they were delicious. That and the...

I obtained them through a USDA trial last year. Pods do get tough as they mature. When I sampled them last year the larger pods were woody but the very young ones were still tender.

All bush dry beans except Rosey's Red are blooming. The Wren's Egg plants are looking great. Ukrainian Comrades was a mix of two different beans and I planted an equal amount of each together. I have two different bloom colors in that row, so safe to say they're doing okay. Bush snap beans...

@heirloomgal, fingers crossed for the last Ekaterinaslav plant.

I do good until I hear the coyotes howl and then I suddenly remember that I can't run as fast as I could a year ago. :oops:

Last evening I went out with a Sharpie and refreshed the fading tags. Actually the tags that had faded the most I used a different brand of permanent marker on, but the Sharpie was fading too. I ended up not labeling one because the name was too far gone even though I was pretty confident of...

First blooms on two varieties of bush beans this morning: Ukrainian Comrades and Cold Creek. Railroad has buds and I'm sure it will be blooming by the end of the week. We've been getting a bit of rain and varieties that were just over the top of my head have shot up at least another foot.

Thankfully the Wren's Egg plant has been the only casualty. I have three plants that have surpassed my height as of this morning - Nona Agnes, Grandma Barnett and one whose name escaped me as soon as I shut the garden gate (Coal Camp). I purposely requested Nona Agnes and Meerbarbe this year...

Had a Wren's Egg plant struggling for the last week and it finally succumbed. Dug around to see if voles were an issue and nada. Thankfully the other plants are flourishing.

The only time I've ever had any plants that looked remotely like mosaic was back in 2020 and I blamed that on a bag of herbicide tainted Black Kow manure I added to that bed when I filled it. That was the only bed I added it to and the only bed with any issues. When I started researching...