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@heirloomgal I don't know if there will be tariffs on parcels from you. Whatever it is I will pay it and I'm sure it won't be very much.

You will still be able to wrap your package in brown paper with all the seams sealed in tape? Or would you like me to make up a Package inventory list and and send you the image to print out plus the image of the Green/Yellow label and the address label of the the New Jersey inspection station.

Very beautiful quality looking beans. So very nice.

It is the water soaking into the pods externally.

Isn't that what I said? My concern for bush beans is wet ground sprouting and rotting seeds too. Did I word my statement oddly?

My grow out of this bean this year also looks similar to this. The yellow pods I have are now developing I think red streaks and speckles. I will have to take a photo today. The plants are just loaded with yellow pods. I'm hoping we escape any of our usual frosts in early October. The long...

This comes out of Robert Lobitz material that I obtained from Ron Thuma of Hartford, Kansas in 2015. It had Robert's code number of #30B 97D-00M-03A. According to Robert Lobitz it is a Contender x Trout cross. I think that Robert had never worked with this coded bean other than probably being...

I would be more concerned about bush bean pods after a good rain. Since all their pods are within inches of the ground a sunny day or two can purculate moisture up through the plants and pods and ruin seeds certainly by making them sprout. I think a good mulching of your soil is helpful in...

The beans that you got from me were grown in a lighter soil than the place I'm growiing beans this year. My original named bean Pawnee was grown in Belgium one year with soil that had a lot of organic matter added to it and it just looked marvelous. Lots of white with very fine spotting in the...

Harvesting beans in anticipation of rain. If the pods are dry of course those get harvested. Also if the pods are yellow and flabby. When it comes to bush beans. If we have had a heavy rainy period where I know the soil is going to stay very wet for an extended period of time. I look to see if...

I grew two beans that looked like this in the early 1980's. The yellow podded bean was called Sultan's Golden Moon. The green podded one was Sultan's Emerald Moon.

I have picked Bigarradda pods for just a short amount of time and I can already tell that it's a high production bean. I can't find anything negative to say about the bean. It produces beautiful formed and uniform seed. The color is wonderful to look at, all the while it has gone through a very...

Yes this is true with some beans that have this Jacob's patterned seed coat. Warmer summers and the seed is mostly colored without very much white or none at all. However I have some beans where they are not affected by higher temperatures and display their normal colored to white ratio when...

I wonder if one of Robert's Purple podded beans were crossed with some African bean that might not even have been a purple bean but contributed to the new seed coat pattern and one of his purple podded beans passed on the purple pod character to the new bean. Purple Dove may have even been an F3...

I wonder how anyone could find the parental combination that Robert Lobitz used to create Purple Dove. Most of what he released was bush beans. I would imagine that is what he mostly worked with. He worked with Purple Kidney beans. He had a snap bean called Purple Duke, Purple Queen and Royalty...

Yes if you do come across some different and unique seed coats in your crosses and want to donate some seed I would definitely be interested.

I would say that the grower of the outcross usually can keep the outcrossed seed. Sometimes the grower will send some of the outcrossed seed back if the seed coat is really something different or unique.

It has bean a hard year for beans. Especially bush beans. June was brutally hot with hardly a drop of rain. July gave us a little bit of teaser rains. I watered beans for about two months each week. About a week and a half ago we got 4 inches, 10 cm of rain in 3 days. The soil was so wet that my...

Seeds with split seed coats have been germination tested by me and another grow I know in Iowa and found that the beans do grow.

I checked my freezer files and there were no new entries made for the bean last year. Actually Dule is not listed at all on my freezer files so all the packets that I had were sent out. You will be the only grower that will be returning Dule. Other growers failed to make returns.