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Oh my gosh is that a beautiful blue! Do you get any that have a hint of tan in them?

@heirloomgal, I'll just let you be the judge of what you want to return new seed of and what you want to regrow next year. I also could send you some Ilene beans for next year. You are very conscientious and grow some of the nicest seeds that anyone would want to gaze upon. Not to worry, no...

Did someone mention that certain bean pods like Cresnjevec are hard to hand shell? I found a way this morning to make the Cresnjevec pods pretty much just unzip right open. you hold the pods left hand at the top and right hand at the other end of the pod. Then at the same time twist the hands in...

If you want Network beans to grow or you want to get into those unnamed beans. All you have to do is email me at upadam@comcast.net. Let me know what you want to grow. I also have named beans that are not on the network pages. You perhaps might be interested to those also. What ever number of...

This has been one of my favorites since I first acquired and grew Cresnjevec. Very productive. A beautiful color and produces excellent quality beans. A real gem. Love the photos that should make a bean lover just droll with excitment.

I have planted a tomato plant in front of my house. I plant pole beans in my south flower bed. I have a neighbor who was born and raised in Stuttgart. She tells me that is very European. Nothing wrong with it. Europeans don't waste space when growing their garden plants. They'll plant veggies...

What can you imagine that this bean guy is doing this weekend and for probably a number of days ahead? Well packing tomato seeds in 2 x 3 inch ziplocs. A guy I know named Jim in Stanwood, Iowa got tomato seed from @heirloomgal. He grew them this summer. Fermented, cleaned and dried them. He...

Tonight will likely be our first frost as we have a freeze warning for tonight and Wednesday overnight into Thursday morning. The 2024 bean season will be over here in northern Illinois.

I did have just a little garden fun this summer. l got to watch volunteer pumpkin, volunteer acorn squash, and volunteer tomato plants grow in one of my small back yard plots. The fellow who owns the property where I have an offsite bean plot grew pumpkins and acorn squashes last year and he...

@heirloomgal This is exactly what she wrote. Looking for something really interesting pod wise; no stripes; but an interesting colour – a snap is best and a pole or bush bean will be fine.

@heirloomgal What different colored pods have you found in all the beans you have grown. Pods just with solid color and no stripes or streaking. A farm woman in Blyth that I think both you and I know wants pods with different colors other than green and without the purple and red streaks. I...

The little piece of thread you get attached to the eye (bellybutton) of the bean is what I call the umbilical vein. That is the vein that runs down the center of the pod where all the seeds are attached at the eye where the plant is growing, feeding and creating the seeds. The pod is like the...

Does anyone know anything about the following beans or where they can be acquired. Tres hatif de Massey Paimpolaise de Gayader Fin de Villeneuve Sapitos

@heirloomgal, I'm most likely the person who has spread Mona Lisa around since I acquired it in 2013. In the bean groups I belong too I had never seen anyone talk about or post photos of Mona Lisa around 2013. There is a woman in Liebenfels, Austria by name of Harriet Mella who ran across my...

Where did you acquire the bean Mona Lisa?

Neat looking bean. Wow large seeded and love the shape. The color reminds me of the snap pole bean I have called Weaver. So Santa Maria Pinquito is the smallest bean you have ever seen. Next time you get beans from me there is one I'm going to give you that has a really, really small seed. I...

Yes freezing will keep Lemon Slice from darkening. I have had some beans in my freezer since 2012 and they still look new and bright.

I wonder if you crossed it with a white true bush bean. The white seed coat is recessive and maybe the Lemon Slice seed coat would be dominant. With enough segregations a bush type should show up hopefully with the lemon slice seed coat.

Summer Bean Show 2024 Vol. #29 The Esta core e demais coloring reminds me a little of my Pink Emperor bean. Frijol Habita is very pretty. It is a Phaseolus Dumosus species. The Maine Yellow Eye are beautiful specimens grown in the Ukraine. Pink Blackberry was also grown in the Ukraine. Last but...

I'm sure this white stripe is genetically controlled. Everything about a bean including seeds, flower color, growth, maturity time are all controlled by genes. These characteristics can be influenced by the enviornment.