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For what it's worth, I've grown Fagiolino Dolico Veneto and my email says I got it from Victory. I should see if I still have those, but I had much better luck here with MN-150.

I was eying that soybean chowder!

Yes, but I can't tell that they do any real damage. A bigger problem for me is that I can only grow them for seed in my cold gardens. At home and in the community garden they get some sort of fungus.

These recipes remind me of the 'canned beans' in Quebec grocery stores, many of which have straight up pork fat listed as an ingredient.

I've mostly given up on limas. I like favas in the same place. MN-150 cowpeas from @Zeedman have reignited my interest in vignas. I had maybe 50-60% of pods ripen by mid September and I think the rest may have been a second flush of pods because they weren't even close. They made excellent...

Birds Egg #3 would be one of my favorite beans if it just started drying down a little sooner. I was JUST talking about this variety tonight in a local seed saver group when someone asked about canning shellies!

It's super small. Supposedly it predates all of the pasty settlers from Europe, including the vikings, who saw it growing in Newfoundland. Who knows how accurate that is, but I like the story.

I just leave mine in beer flats for months at a time until they get in my way. @Zeedman has mentioned putting them away when static ("Sweater lightning"?) becomes a problem which I think is a great benchmark.

Gaspe is a great variety. Just ask my squirrels.

Our climate is essentially a cold version of Seattle. Oddly that never makes it to the marketing brochures... We average around 3 inches of rain a month, the problem being that once you get away from the weather charts we end up getting no rain for six weeks and then 3 inches in a day. We got...

Google says I get about twice as much rain per year as you, but July and August were super dry this year and I still never watered. Yields were down some but otherwise things did fine. I mulch heavily after planting, keep the soil wet around seedlings, but otherwise don't worry about it. I don't...

Jeeze, my version of tilling excitement is when the broadfork gets under a rock that's too big to pry out without risking damage to the tines. No tales of harrowing (har har har get it?) bravery here :( :D

These are lovely. I love that shade of tan in #2. The seed coat in #28 was common with beans raised by Abenaki and Iroquois peoples who lived in my area in the northeast US before white people showed up.

I noticed that the Red Turtle beans didn't want to stay on their strings early this season, but that they eventually seemed to come around to the idea. It seemed odd that they changed their .. willingness .. for lack of a better word.

I used to have living rooms, etc. that looked like all of yours but this year I finally got a couple of sets of 2x4' (~60x120cm) shelves. Each shelf fits 4 beer can flats or 3 bus tubs. One set has 5 shelves while the other has 6. It's amazing how consolidated and tidy everything feels. While my...

Most of my beds run north to south, but it has more to do with locations, water flow, and access than anything else. I'm not sure it makes a difference otherwise. If you plant the tall stuff at the northern edge it won't shade anything but itself. Unless your beds are super crowded or you're...

I usually take pretty good notes about such things but was a slacker this summer. Cha Kura Kake went from "Hey that leaf is turning yellow" to "holy crap those plants look like sticks" at some point when I wasn't looking. It felt shockingly fast at the time, but for full disclosure I was working...

Here's my soybean mystery of the year for you: Cha Kura Kake (85 days in your listings) ripened to dry a solid 2 weeks before Ezonishiki (75 days in your list). They were planted within days of each other. I trust your numbers, so I assume this was something environmental. Ezonishiki was in...

This is my concern in growing soy in my cold gardens, and those gardens have a similar climate to @heirloomgal's. This all gives me a lot of hope! I'm also jealous of both those swirls and the yield. My Ezonishiki gave me around 6 oz from the same number of plants.

Ohhhh these are beautiful! :-o