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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.

I've also grown Bela Putersnica this year and it is loaded with beautiful yellow pods. The plants are just lush looking.

Yes send seed back with the note they are pole beans. The original grower probably grew them nearly 10 years ago. I don't remember at that time if they told me they were pole or bush. It must have been bush because that what I listed them as. If the pods haven't gotten seedy yet try a couple...

It is interesting to note that among all the pole beans that I have planted. I'm getting the best results from the direct seeded beans with the exception of once again the limas. The limas have really taken well to being prestarted in a container and then transplanted. Many of my Phasolus...

2025 Network Bean Returns I'm going to ask every one who are growing Network beans this year and who reads this thread. Not to return your beans until after January 1, 2026. I will be leaving Illinois In late October and will be gone to Florida for November and half of December. I will...

Oxford ! Yes I have to also add your photos are real beauties and yes calender worthy. Glad you found us and any other new bean enthusiasts that have come onboard in the last few months. Welcome to all of you.

Yes I would remove it so the running habit doesn't get into your other true bush beans. Personally I like to keep my true bush types just as they are. I don't grow bush types near anything that climbs. I think I found one runner bean among my Blue Jay this year and I removed it.

Three years of drought how awful. I hope the one year old drought we are having here doesn't go that long. We are in moderate drought but with the heat that we have had this summer if I had not watered all my beans I'm sure would be dead by now. I haven't watered now for two weeks and tomorrows...

I picked a couple of Apple Creek pods yesterday and steam cooked them. They were stringless. They are not growing in a good spot this year. They are getting only the afternoon sun. The pods are not looking very uniform in shape. I will grow them again next year and give them a sunny spot. I...