Tara - Pole Dry. (Photo Left) This comes from my dry bean farmer friend in Idaho Falls. I think he told me once that it was something developed in Japan. It has somewhat of a large size seed a bit larger than a bean like Bosnian. About average production nothing outstanding. Nice seed quality.
Tres Hatif De Massey - Bush Snap (Photo Right) This is a French snap bean. Nice flavor and stringless. William Woys Weaver set me out to find this one. I obtained it from my European contacts and I believe they acquired it from IPK the German seed bank. I sent some to Will and he wrote back and told me that it is not correct that Tres is a white seeded bean. Maybe I should give that bean some sort of name and leave it go at that. Will says he knows German and is going to look into the IPK website and try to figure out what is the correct name of this bean.
Tunny - Pole Dry. (Photo Left) I saw this bean on Beans & Herbs in the UK and two different sources sent it to me. Beans and Herbs mailed it to me and someone else that I have forgotten. I have grown it four times and still have not found either the correct soil or season for it to do well. It's a very pretty bean. Maybe it just doesn't like our short hot midwest summers.
Ukrainian Pole - Pole Dry. (Photo Right) This is a beautiful European bean that I have grown twice with very little production. I love the rich coloring and pattern on this bean and probably will never give up on it.
Veitch Wonder - Bush Dry. (Photo Left) Looks like a small P. Coccineus. It didn't do well this past summer but has grown well in the past. It is in fact a hybrid of common bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris x a runner bean Phaseolus Coccineus) from the James Veitch Nurseries of Chelsea-UK-Anno 1900-1910. Found in 2015 by the Belgian Seedhunter Lieven Decrick in a Colombian Genebank.
Veitch Wonder Off Type (Photo Right) Solid tan seed coat. The off type actually produced a higher quality of seed than did the seed mother. I think I may have already discarded this seed.
I made a good discovery yesterday. I thought I had eaten those nice bean off types from the Milky Way. Apparently I put them in a jar and set them downstairs in the basement where it's cool on the very table where I package beans often. There they were sitting on the other side of the table I didn't even notice them all this time. Now they can be grown this coming summer.
