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The beans in the photo are pretty true to what the color is actually, brown.

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 30 Inca Pea - Pole Dry. My website says Inca Pea produces large amounts of beans. It didn't do that. Another bean from the Joe Simocox collection. Michigan Indian Mound - Pole Dry. I have another bean with this same exact name that I had in my collection long...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 29 Hobb's Goose - Pole Dry. I've grown this bean way back in my early Seed Saver Exchange years. The bean was traded a fair amount through that network. SSE lost this variety for awhile. They got it back via Kent State University in Ohio that had preseved the bean...

I've had about two spacings of seeds in a row. I don't plant seed 2 to 3 inches part. I do a minimum of 6 inches for good development of bush beans and sometime 8 inches apart. Anyway that's my opinion. Rows, I've had bush bean rows 24, 30, 36, 40 and 54 inches apart. You've seen this photo...

I don't seem to have a lot of crossing. It seems when I get crosses it comes in beans I get from other people. However I do my best to bury Limas far apart among Phaseolus Vukgaris common beans. If you plant two different limas next to each other I guarentee you will have a cross. Maybe in both...

I believe I have Dixie Speckled Butterpea in my freezer. I believe according to what I see on my freezer file that there is probably at leas a quarter pound of this bean in the freezer.

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 28 Hypolita - Pole Dry. This bean might even be a semi runner. I found this bean in Angel Cattle in 2016. Angel cattle is a bean I got from Professor Jurgen Klapprott in Germany in 2014. Hypolita produced an off type when I grew it in 2017. Nice size seed with a...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 27 Green Savage - Pole Green Snap. People really like this bean or are at least interested in finding out what it's like for themselves. I had to do another grow out in 2025. I'm glad that I got this bean from one of our Pensylvania seed swappers before the grower...

We had snow all during the night Sunday and more Monday morning. It looked like the middle of January in March. We got more snow last night. There must be 5 inches (12.7 cm). Last nights snow covered over all the areas that had melted open on the streets and sidewalks. I don't know how the poor...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 26 Georgia Black & White - Pole Dry. I grew a bunch of Network beans this year. This one produced good size seed and considering the heart of this past summer it did very well. Another one of the Joesph Simcox beans brought over from the country of Georgia...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 25 Galloway - Pole Dry. This is one of the outcrosses that was sent to me by Will Bonsall in 2015. Sometimes I think the bean is stable then I pick another set of seeds and I get an off type from that grow out. Galloway has a small patch of pinkish tan around the...

Yes I really think this is the same bean under a different name. There is someone in Seed Savers Exchange also lists this bean as Fleiderfarben Cranberry. In the UK it's often referred to as Cranberry Lilac. Since I had acquired this bean under the name Forelle Fleiderfarben before I knew there...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 24 Frost - Pole Dry. Pre 1790 bean. Grown by both British and American gardeners in colonial times. Regarded for it's frost tollerance. To me it seems like a difficult bean to grow. Perhaps the Illinois climate is too warm for this cultivar. Fruhegoldbohne - Bush...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 24 Fountain Pitts Allen - Pole Dry. I got this bean from a Stephen Smith of Guthrie, Kentucky. He claims to have bred this bean when he was in high school and the name of a friend was part of the inspiration for the name of this bean. It's very productive and...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 23 Flossie Powell - Pole Lima. This bean did very well in soil that others literally droped dead. 4 plants produced 1.25 pounds (575 G). It's an heirloom of which it's name goes back about 104 years. This bean was grown by a real Flossie Powell in the early part of...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 22 Epsilon - Bush Dry. Here is another cross I've been growing and just aching for it to stabalize so I can share it with as many as might want it. Epsilon, fifth letter of the Greek alphabet. Epsilon Eridani a nearby star system with exoplanets. Epsilon Ot 1 -...

I'm the same way. Maybe it's like looking into the night sky at all those tiny little twinkling speckles so far away. Almost hypnotic.

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 21 Draper's Glen - Semi Runner Dry. Discovered this bean in 2019 in Marico. Lately the bean has taken to producing two off types a pure white bean and a snaller sort of square looking bean with a much more prominent eye ring and a bit more spots over the rest of...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 21 Doti Dotion - Pole Dry. This bean grew to about 7 feet (2.3 Meters). It reminded me a lot of Neabels Ukrainian. Large seeds and patterned with colors shades identical to Neabels. Productivity is about average. A bean brought back to North America by Joseph...

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 19 Diamont - Pole Dry - A gift to me from a bean friend in Austria who I believe may have acquired the bean from the Sarconi Seed Company in Italy. In 2025 it seemed productive enough producing 10.2 ounces (289 G) from 6 plants. A beautiful and unique look seed...