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That bean raises a big Wow in me! What a beauty. Very similar to Bomba but much richer stronger color. I have been told somewhere along the way that there are a lot of interesting beans in Latvia.

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 2 Appaloosa - Bush Dry. Having last grown this bean in 2021 I originally obtained the bean from Full Circle Seeds in BC Canada in 2012. Considering the growing season this year. the bean didn't do too badly. It produced 12.30 ounces of seed from about 13 plants...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 2 Alice Sunshine hadn't been grown since 2025. Grown in my backyard plot it did very well and produced some of the nicest seed of the bean I had grown. Approximately 20 plants produce 1 pound 1.55 ounces (497 g). This is one of Robert Lobitz's green snap beans...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show I grew one of Artur's beans this year. The 1500 Year Old Cave. 8 plants produce about 2.5 pounds (1.1 kg) of beans. I would call that very productive. The 1500 year Old Cave bean will be on the commercial pages of my website eventually. Then some beans did just the...

I've taken a couple experimanteal photos with the new camera and it looks good. I've ordered a cable that will allow me to hook the camera up to my desk top and I have downloaded the app from Canon for this camera. I'm not going to play around with the camera on the phone. It did seem though...

heirloogal, don't send that seed back to me as I'm not going to be any better at trying to get them to grow than you. However now I know what happened to it. Many of these Simcox beans sat in the basement of a lady who knows Joe. They sat for several years and who knows how old they were when...

Over the weekend I was feeling a little bumbed out. I spent a number of days taking bean photos in January and this month of February with my phones camera. I had used a 2003 era Canon PowerShot G3 4 mega pixel for all my website and photos posted here for years. Even when the orignal camera...

I just wonder if semi pole is what I would call a semi runner. I plant them on 8 foot long 4 foot wide handy panels from Tracktor Supply Store. I support them with wooden steaks that have a point cut on one end. I use 1 x 2 inch furing strips. I cut the strips to about 4 feet tall. Drive them...

I will update the website if I can catch up with the orders for awhile. Actually I haven't even started yet to update the website. It's been crazy busy. I haven't even done my annual bean show here. The round seeded Red Valentine will be available. You should sit tight. When I get the new beans...

Wow ! Who's seed packet from? Who is the seller? Where is the seller from? Just never know where I'm going to pop out of next. I discovered recently Blue Jay is sold by Living Seeds in South Africa. Well I'm glad to have put something that has been my passion for a long time into the world...

@Heliena said I'm peeking in on this thread for the first time after finding @Blue-Jay's website on my quest for unusual beans. Welcome Heliena ! So glad you are here. I think you've found the right place and are set to enjoy beans like you have never enjoyed them before. BTW what is young...

It would be fun to grow them out this coming summer. You can't declare them as seeds of any kind when you ship to the U.S. Customs will confiscate the seeds and destroy them unless we use my small seed lots account. If I email you all the documents you need to use can you print them out on your end?

Could you send a few seeds for me to Decoy of the first off type. That bean looks a little gray and black to me. Anyway Decoy will have a return package coming back one day.

The first off type is great looking bean. Did you keep the off types to grow out again?

This bean was in a Joseph Simcox collection that I had acquired. I was able to look up the bean by name on a USDA seed bank site and it said origin UK. I think it's on a site when you google Grin Global. There isn't much else about the bean on the site as far as I remember.

Sounds like your $15 charge was made up by the clerk taking care of you at the one post office. Here when the postal clerk puts your package on the scale types in the zip code the weight and amount owed comes up on their screen. No way the people here can make up prices if that is what happened...

I think it really makes a difference which post office you are dealing with. A particular post office clerk might interpret what is required on customs labels differently. They just simply get picky. Sounds like your smaller post office is the place to go.

With trees in between you would be fine with limas. They cross easily. You being in Minnesota. You could start beans early in styro cups with potting mix like heirloomgal does. She's further north than you in Ontario and she grows beans that they grow in Kentucky and Tennessee. Give them about a...

Oh Woops You are correct !! 🤣

The Flynn bean from SMAC is not the same bean I have on my Network page.