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They are calling them a bush ! It was my understanding that this bean is a semi runner. @flowerbug grew it for me this past summer we should ask him about it's growth .

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 11 Brown Trout - Bush Dry. A bean that has been with me for over 40 years. Traded among Seed Saver Exchange members during the 1980's. An original bean of former SSE member Ernest Dana of Etna New Hampshire. An occasionally requested bean. It grew better than...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 10 Blue Spitball - Pole Dry. Got this bean from one of our seed swap ladies about 6 years ago. It grew fairly well in 2020 the first time I grew. This past summer the little bitty plants looks so sad. They grew lower to the ground than a Tepary bean. It's a...

Garry Greene wrote to me last night and told me something about my post #164 in regards to the bean Blue Pacific. He says Blue & White of Bernardo was the seed mother and Viola Di Assiago might have been the pollen donor.

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 9 Blue Jay - Bush Snap. I think a lot of bean people already know the story of Blue Jay. I have the need to grow it fairly frequently as it is steadly requested. I got a nice seed crop of nice quality seed in 2025. Besides being sold by probably 15 or more Canadian...

Grow lights work for tomato plants and they must require just as much intensity of light as beans do. If you have grow lights try it and see what happens. I would think bush bean would be the best one to try because they are smaller.

Was this a test or will you plant any of these in an outside garden? Are you able to plant beans in your area already?

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 8 Bird Egg Blue - Bush Dry. Surprisingly this bean did very well in a place where some beans I grew wouldn't even give me one well fill out seed. A bean I discovered and named in the early 1980's. Plants of this bean in the right soil can grow up to 2 feet tall (60...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 7 Bigarrada Gris Negre - Pole Dry. A Catalonian heirloom from Spain. To say this bean is productive is an understatment. I'm not sure I have another bean that produces like this one does. On top of it's super productivity the bean is beautiful. Obtained this bean...

Your Paula looks so very nice. I am going to try to grow it this summer. I haven't done a grow out on it since about 2018. Did you try eating any of the geen pods? RL described the bean as a green snap.

Here is the Little Falls. I sent to Artorious. I think I discovered Little Falls about 7 or 8 years ago. Little Falls - Bush Dry

Wow ! That's a beauty. Were you able to purchase it somewhere?

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 6 Bela Putersnica - Pole Dry. This bean did not do well this summer. I got some seeds where the colored area of the seed tended towards blue and some that tended toward the color tan. Big Dipper - Pole Dry. This bean has grown well for me in previous years but...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 5 Batumi Silk - Pole Dry. This is one of the many beans brought to North America by world seed hunter and traveler Jospeh Simcox. This beans origin is the country of Georgia and was probably purchased at a market in Batumi. Vines were decently productive probably...

Some of the very poor producing beans I might consider weeding them out of the collection and eating them.

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 4 Batumi Georgia - Pole Dry. This bean also didn't produce much seed but got back the same seed that was planted. I wonder if these beans just didn't have good vigor to produce much seed because of the seeds age. however now I am able to see what the seed looks...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 4 Aunt Jeans Pole Dry Snap. Suppossedly a Canadian heirloom can be used for both fresh eating and dry. This bean did not do well at all. It produced decent seed but only a handfull or two. It wasn't happy about something. Badda Nera - This bean was sourced in...

I have a network grower in Germany that I have not hear from at all. The network grower I have in France messaged me and said he could not mail his package to me because nothing is normal. That was his characterization. I am just assuming it had to do with tariffs.

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 3 Algonquin - Pole Dry. This bean came out of a packet of seed in 2015 from Will Bonsall (The Scattered Seed Project). In the packet was also Hiawatha. They both were said to be off types of Norridgwock. I found both of them to be stable when grown and all I had to...