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I always find lettuce seed is slow to process. I’ve not found a faster way but if anyone has one I’d be very happy to know it. I go through manually teasing the seed from the fluffy spent flower heads and end up with seed mixed with fluffy remains. I was lucky enough to be given the generous...

I’m intrigued by which stage of tomato seed preparation you’re ploughing through. Is this piles of actual tomatoes, piles of little fermenting pots, piles of drying tomato seeds, or other? Wherever you are in the process, good luck with your sanity! 😘

Congratulations on your lack of flatulence! That’s a gift as I agree that they’re totally delicious. The tendency to be over-vigorous and take over is their other drawback in my mind. When I decided that the indigestion was just too much and so wanted to get rid of them, it took me four or five...

There have been quite a lot of tomato varieties bred in recent years for blight resistance. Some are F1 hybrids like Mountain Magic , Crimson Crush and its relatives, Crimson Cherry etc. Very promising are some open pollinated varieties bred by the University of Göttingen’s Organic Outdoor...

Of the beans which you mention as late, I’m also watching both Rose and Rio Zape anxiously. Other doubtful ones for me are Panzaredda, Eddie Sims Traveling bean and Blue Greasy Grit. I’ve managed seed from the last one in the past; it seems to start late but dry down quite quickly. I’m...

I’ve put it on my list of beans to grow next year to see if I find the same.

Are your bean pods sickly looking or is it just the foliage,@heirloomgal? I agree that it’s a very beautiful seed coat.

I grew it in 2021 so memory is a bit vague. The only note I have is that it was quite productive of good quality seed. I hope you get good seed/dried beans.

Interesting. I’m wondering about the curly podded/Kipfler strains. I have the impression that the term kipfler is sometimes used specifically for a small number of variations from the Austria alps and sometimes used more generally for a larger number of curly beans from the wider alpine region...

I've had the same feeling this year about beans not being entirely straightforward or predictable. Not entirely the same weather patterns and less creature predation, but certainly some mysteriously reluctant to thrive. But peculiarly addictive nevertheless - or perhaps because of some challenge.

Sultan's Gold Crescent. Maybe not quite as curly as yours, @Branching Out ? So perhaps Anellino Giallo is more likely.

I also grew Freckles a couple of years ago from 2013 seed from @Blue-Jay . And had a similar or even greater contrast in seed coat colours but the other way round. I received very red seeds and produced much whiter seeds

Sultan’s Gold Crescent came immediately into my mind. I was hoping I had a photo but unfortunately not. Perhaps later today.

Hope this helps

In UK it’s quite easy to find a mix of open pollinated double flowering hollyhocks called Chaters Mix. I don’t know how easy they are to find in Canada. I’m not aware of any single colour double strains.

Out of your list, there are several I haven’t grown but a couple stood out. One was Old Joe Clark which I’ve also found particularly early and high yielding. But I have a different experience of Fat Man. I’m growing it this season - thank you! - and it’s only in flower now. I was thinking of it...

I very much like Bragançano too but I think of it as quite a late bean so I think yours is doing quite well to be producing now. For a number of years I grew it to have a snap bean for eating when many other varieties were past that stage and it worked well in that way.

An interesting exchange. I hadn’t realised sunflowers are prone to inbreeding depression. Thanks @heirloomgal. I have a liking for the bronze coloured sunflowers, the darker the better. They self-seed readily in my veg garden and I have quite a lot, so perhaps that mitigates any effect of...

I hope you don’t mind me stepping in here but I think the link doesn’t have all the information. This one might lead to the fuller page https://www.bohnen-atlas.de/sorten/b/2022-bela-putersnica Sorry of if I’ve created confusion though. Links are a bit chancy sometimes.

I can also confirm that I had pure white flowers last season from seed donated by P. Suckling. Thank you,P.S.