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Yes, I grew Zimbabwe Stones and had I think more than one plant which had purple pods and produced seeds which could well have suggested a Purple Dove cross

I agree. I think if your lights are good enough for other types they should be fine, but quite how you’d manage pole beans (which presumably these are Iikely to be) under lights I can’t imagine. Mine have only about 15” of clearance.

Yes, a pretty clear early indication! I’m told that Rose is particularly prone to off-types. An interesting one to follow up. Are you going to try to grow them indoors?

I don’t know how cold your basement is but I keep carrots quite successfully in an outhouse in slightly damp sand. I guess an outhouse for you might be colder than your fridge, but I wonder whether a box of sand in your basement could be OK?

A belated welcome from me too, @Heliena. I’m imagining that you have quite a short season and that breeding for a short season trait might well be a priority? Do you find that there are quite a lot of pole varieties which dry their seeds too late for your season? Others will advise on resources...

Ah yes, reverses. An unusually large proportion of reverses, as @Ridgerunner says.

Thank you. How can I resist! Would you say there are two distinct types in the bottom picture - one more frosted than the other?

Are you planning to continue with either off-type? I’ve struggled with how late Rose is for two years running, so comparative earliness would be an advantage. But your true to type seeds are very bonnie.

@Blue-Jay, on your priority list you have a brown seeded bean called Ferrat which your website says is of UK origin. I’m intrigued about what is known and what isn’t known, as you also say growth and usage are unknown. Is there any more information available about the origin of this variety? How...

Exciting to have the 2026 thread started so promptly and with much appreciated warm words. Great! Bobis d’Albenga (Albenga I believe rather than Albanga) is a bush variety from Albenga in Italy. I grew it in 2024. It’s a vigorous productive variety of purple splashed snap beans. I’m happy to...

Steve, thank you for the overview and the link to the previous thread. It sounds as though growing ginger for you too is really expensive in terms of compost, time and effort. I think I’ll revert to my previous feeling which is that, for me, it’s not really worthwhile, much as I love ginger...

I’d be really interested to know how you grow your ginger. Under cover? In pots? Any special treatment? I’ve tried it once in pots in my greenhouse but had such a small yield that I haven’t tried again. Yours looks very good. Am I missing something?

I tend to think of mustards and oriental greens as being on a scale from peppery to mild. At the most peppery end are the mustards like Green Wave etc. At the mildest end would perhaps be tatsoi. Yukina savoy is inbetween but nearer the mild end. Mizuna is perhaps about similar or even milder...

I’ve grown Yukina Savoy a few times. For me it’s been an over-wintering crop sown around August to plant out under cover, or outdoors but somewhere protected. It’s a kind of more puckered version of tatsoi on quite a lot smaller scale than collards. I suspect that it would quite quickly go to...

I’ve put it on my growing list for next year to check it out again.

Thank you for the link. I’ve begun to into Lucy Thompson’s book and it promises to be fascinating.

It was a bush bean. I received it as bush and indeed it was!

Green Albufeira is a bean I last grew in 2019 but I remember liking it very much. My notes say, Dry. Not brilliant for shelling. OK for snap but tends to get too big quickly. Albufeira is in the Algarve A very high yielding variety, with big heavy green beans, not yet tested for stringiness. A...

Lovely selection. Carrying on the discussion about photos in sun compared with photos in shade, the colours of Bażanowice, for example. look so very different in your two pictures. It would be interesting to know whether one seems truer than the other to you.

Some bean harvests that I have specially enjoyed. Amish Gnuddle. I like the frosted patterning and understated colouring. The plants weren't vigorous for me, perhaps only 4ft tall. Not a huge crop but I enjoyed what was produced. I believe there are many variant spellings for this variety...