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Blue-Jay
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My experience Champagne @Blue-Jay, in light of yours and @Zeedman's posts about this bean, I guess has been pretty good. There were a handful of somewhat strangely shaped beans, but there were not many like that. If anything, the strangeness was more about the fact that these beans were shaped very much like cashews, with a slight curve in the centre sideways making them seem 'bent' for lack of a better word, and many are not fully symmetrical. Sometimes one side is nice and smooth, and the other side is less so. Nothing super drastic, but these certainly do not form with the perfect smooth surfaces and symmetry of Stayley's Star beans! Ha!
That is great news that Champagne produces better seed with you. I wonder if it has something to do with climate or soil type. Champagne originates in the New England states. So perhaps people there grew much better seed than I had grown here in the midwest. When I grew Champagne the soil was somewhat of a clay type topsoil.
The amount of pods on that Nickell bean is just unreal. How many plants is wrapped around that pole?
heirloomgal, your photos of bean seed and plants are just lovely even when you say the light isn't good.
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