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I know this much @ruralmamma , the seeds you send back should look like the original you planted (or what's on @Blue-Jay's website) and if there isn't enough of them because some crosses showed up, (this happened to me last year with Kruger's Speckled) we just plant the true to type seed again...

Thank you @Decoy1 @Artorius , so it sounds like it did fairly well for you @Decoy1. I wouldn't describe my vines as terrible looking, but they aren't nearly as filled out or lush as pole beans typically get so I don't really know if anything is wrong or its just varietal. @Artorius if you...

Has anyone here grown the pole bean 'Fagiolo de la Bereta'? Also known as 'Bareta, de la B.' according to Belle Epoque Meisse. I'm growing it for the 2nd time and finding that again it doesn't seem like a super healthy variety, just not really vigorous and lush. I'm wondering if this is...

In mid-July my local mom & pop grocery store put out a couple tables and offered up all their remaining greenhouse plants for free. Most of them were dead and beyond hope, but they were free, so I said what the heck they might be good for a fall planter. I brought them home and then proceeded...

The end begins! It's bittersweet, always sad to see the summer end but happy to harvest seeds. There also have a few stragglers that are not yet letting go of their green color; Domaci Cucak (below), Custodia (below, left), Ukrainian Pole, Pink Tip Greasy, Malawi Mix, Gialet, mostly those...

That pink is gorgeous! 💞

Those domestic apples are so big!

Went around to all the pole bean plants today and collected dry & semi-dry pods anywhere I found them. The harvest is really starting, and boy it feels great. It feels like that part of trick or treating when your bag is really starting to fill up and you're just itching to get home and dump...

I bent down to pick a single weed that had sprouted, I turned to look up cause I felt like someone was watching me.

It's like you read my mind @Alasgun! I grew that one last year, it was huge! Yes, such a nice tomato I think I may grow it again next year.

Whoa!

Some fall bean picks. I am loving the 'Grady Bailey Greasy' from @Decoy1, boy this has been an impressive variety. In a year like this it really stands out; I was worried it was taking awhile to turn from green but it finally started this week. My first greasy!!! And dependable for the North...

I'm shocked that the poppies kept going until now, mid September! These I'm sure are the very last flowers though. The plants are awful looking when drying, but that's the price I'll pay to collect the seeds. First 'Hamburg Parsley' plants. I'm impressed that they bulked up so much, didn't...

I misspoke there @Branching Out, I always get Maglia Rosa and Pink Tiger mixed up. I meant Pink Tiger, they look very similar. I can't recall what leaf type Pink Tiger had when I grew it, but a cursory search says it can have spindly foliage.

I wonder too @Triffid. And I don't find that family of curly beans necessarily similar on all counts. Some of them seem extremely early and others, like the photo I posted, are quite late. Certainly variation in colors, seeds & most of all maturity. And there are both bush and pole...

Sorry to hear that @jbrobin09. It's been a difficult bean year for me as well. It's good luck you planted Carminat, one of the earlier beans that is really good quality. I know I sent some of them to a fellow SODC member who is really into fresh beans, and she thought it was one of the best...

Yes! That's it! You know your beans @Oxford! I believe I grew the other Aloisia last year.

Maglia Rosa?

Curly beans this year. For the life of me I can only vaguely recall the tag tonight, 'Aloisia Mar....' something. Can't think of it, and google can't either. Whatever the name, it is such a pretty bean. I'll update this post once I look at the tag. 'Karntner Secherslein'

Tomato 'Pink Champagne' has blown my mind with it's production. Given that it's in a pot, and has received the bare minimum of both care and nutrients it really yielding well. In ground this would seem average, but constricted in a pot typically drives the production way down. I couldn't...