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While the San Michele Rosso only has pods that are 2cm/ 1.2inch long and I am very nervous about whether it will still turn out okay, I...

This comes out of Robert Lobitz material that I obtained from Ron Thuma of Hartford, Kansas in 2015. It had Robert's code number of #30B...

That's right, I have several varieties of such beans from Italy and Austria, especially from the Steiermark / Styria region. This is...

This is the beautiful fictional story of... Ellenah and Josiah Freeman

The beans that you got from me were grown in a lighter soil than the place I'm growiing beans this year. My original named bean Pawnee...

That seems to have happened to me this year, on three trout/cattle pattern beans I bought from Russ's store. Some were more extreme...

I've had the same feeling this year about beans not being entirely straightforward or predictable. Not entirely the same weather...

Sultan's Gold Crescent. Maybe not quite as curly as yours, @Branching Out ? So perhaps Anellino Giallo is more likely.

I also grew Freckles a couple of years ago from 2013 seed from @Blue-Jay . And had a similar or even greater contrast in seed coat...

This bean exists in many varieties in Italy, Austria, Germany and Switzerland. It is called Anellino Gialo (Italien - small yellow...

An elderly Italian gardener gave me seeds of a small crescent-shaped yellow pole snap bean. She told me that they're really good-- but...

First 2025 dry bean food of the year for us. Italian Bean Salad with fresh Dolloff beans.

It has bean a hard year for beans. Especially bush beans. June was brutally hot with hardly a drop of rain. July gave us a little bit of...

@Oxford This year I also started mulching the soil around the beans with grass clippings to avoid damaging the roots when pulling out...

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