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Tarahumara Bakamina One of two surviving half-runner beans, the second one was Tinker's Fire. The others were washed away by water...

That's a gorgeous bean. I looked up ortza, and it translates from the Basque as 'rainbow'. Maybe they get lots of rainbows in the...

A new bean arrived today, Elortza. Comes from the village of Elortza in Spain's Basque Autonomous Community. It's a bush dry bean.

So Guy Dirix post this information on facebook about this bean with the upside down exclamation mark. It is a bush bean from Cusco-Peru...

Oh, you don't have? But everybody should have some! As I see, @Triffid has already begun to take care of this problem. Very good! If you...

A new bean I purchased, originally bought from a market in Malawi; it goes by the name 'Malawi Mix'. We'll see what's actually in the...

a pole version of Early Warwick? :) very nice beans all of them.

I'm going to guess that the seeds with flattened ends will repeat. You might have two slightly different strains of this bean. Rounded...

Gorgeous, beautiful seeds @Artorius. 🥰

Rosso del Cadore from Veneto, Italy. One of the earliest pole beans I have ever had. I picked my first dry pods in late July/early...

Me too. So far so good. I was amazed how much work it was for the postal lady to figure out how to get the parcel put into the system...

This is my Hewitt shortly after harvesting in 2022 so I can confirm the darker colouring.

The Zazza seeds I sowed looked similar to the ones in the picture. The colors were already oxidized. A year without a fridge or freezer...

@flowerbug I took a photo of the older seeds in lieu of my poor description - a picture is worth a thousand words! ;) They're definitely...

So my Uruguay bean trade is underway! We both finally figured out what we wanted from each other and I wound up requesting seeds I...