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    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    And you have 5 seeds in a pod, is this usual for you or an exception? Mine tend to have 4 only by and large. There must be something that makes your garden particularly suited to them. I harvested pods at this stage in early October, not in mid August. The seeds look identical.
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    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    I agree, it is meant to be green. There is another bean, Ryder's Blue Coco bean that is purple. https://www.beansandherbs.co.uk/product/ryders-blue-coco-2/
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    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    Interesting. Blau Weiße von Bernada here is definitely earlier than Succotash. And it did not need greenhouse protection in England either.
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    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    Yes Succotash is a bit of a difficult one and very late. A botanist in my German bean gardening group has found evidence to suggest that it is actually not a phaseolus vulgaris, but a Lima bean, a phaseolus lunatus. I have not heard this from any other source (yet), but it would explain why it...
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    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    I do also believe these are ok. Bean mosaic shows as narrowed leaves and darker green patches on these leaves. Google has photos. Yours are evenly coloured.
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    Branching Out's Seeds and Sprouts

    Here too (thanks for telling me about the post Decoy). Showing sweet pea Enigma which is cream with pinkish red edging that later turned more and more red. This photo is from last year, but I had exactly the same this year. Early flowers were cream, later ones almost solid red. At first I...
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    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    These may be the more useful purchase, if they can be found outside of the UK...
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    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    Neither had I flowerbug, which is why I was so surprised that I got a report of it. I found it difficult to advise, but assured the lady that the beans had been in the freezer and that it probably was 'something in the soil'. Turns out, it wasn't, but when Artorius mentioned the Delia fly, I...
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    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    Thank you Artorius. I had a query recently about bean seeds that 'had maggots in them'. I had never heard of such a thing and the seeds had been in the freezer, so should be fine, but after your comment, I researched the Delia fly. I think this is the problem this grower had. Thank you for...
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    Hello from the Netherlands!

    Thanks Phaedra, yes thank you, beautiful wood stove is kicking out a lot of heat. Not a lot is getting done, apart from Christmas preparations and playing with (sorting) seeds. One greenhouse pane has been lost and I can't get there yet to see whether it is in hundreds of little glass shards...
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    Hello from the Netherlands!

    Welcome fellow beanaholic. Sorry I am so late to the welcome, but now that the garden here (South Germany) is under two feet of snow, I am catching up with gardening groups and chatting. Nice to have you here.
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    Cold stratisfying blueberries

    Thank you very much, will try that. A covered container is needed, I had an open one last year. Yes it is autumn olive, the tiny red quite sharp fruits. Could not take our bushes to Germany, but the seeds and would like to grow some here from the fruit that did so well in England.
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    Spanish Purple/Black Tomatoes

    Olmeca F1 Olmeca F1, good luck with the seedlings. You might also look for Kumato which is very similar or the same. https://www.seednet.eu.com/product/1323/olmeca.html
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    Cold stratisfying blueberries

    I woul I would like to cold stratify my oleagnus. Tried last year with pots outside over winter, but no germination. The rest of the seeds are still in the freezer. Are these seeds now already enabled by their freezer slumber? Should I sow them in warmth now? Or try again with pots in the...
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    What Are You Planting Today, This Week, This Month?

    Nothing today, but 2 weeks ago it was time for the chilis to go into the propagator, with a little bottom heat. They germinated quite well and are now in a much cooler place by the window. Also a couple of pinches of lettuce seed and Giant Bolivian Achocha. We have tiny plants to care for again.
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