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Remember when I posted this dark charcoal looking bean with the white stripe. I found out about it today. It is a hybrid or cross that someone discovered of another bean called Trace Rojo the second red bean. Hyrid Cross of Trace Rojo...............................Trace Rojo

For bean drying weather here. I see the forcast for us is in the 70's all the way through October 5th. With no rain. Then 80 degrees on the 6th.

Summer Bean Show 2024 Vol. #28 I like bean wheel #114. Somebody had the patience to do that with seeds and pods. They even have the names of the beans printed on strips of paper. The Brazilian Purple Moor is pretty. It was interesting that someone grew probably in Europe Koronis Purple and like...

That is very neat. You got all your bean drying in one small space. You use more vertical space instead of horizonal space.

That is the best Blue and White Of Bernardo I've seen in a very long time. That is the way the bean should look. You grow some of the niecest seed that I've ever seen.

I guess I still have a creative mind at the age of 78 LOL ! It took me 1 hour to draw and cut all the holes in the racks's top. Where my offsite Bean Acres is located surrounded with my deer fence. The fellow who owns the property there is going to cut all the wood pieces for me on his table...

Over the weekend I built this bean rack 5.25 inches tall (13 cm) 12 inches wide (30 cm) and 24 inches long (61 cm). It will hold 18 8.5 oz styro cups (251 ML). I can move 18 pole bean seedlings at a time. I want to build 11 more of these so I can prestart all my pole beans next year.

Thank you for that info. I think I'm going to use 8.5 oz styro cups. A little bigger maybe than the 4 inch starter pots but I think close. Last year I used 16 oz styro cups. I was starting to go through potting mix pretty fast with that size. Looking forward to 2025.

The Lambada is a bean that has pods to behold when the seed in maturing. The pods are marked in such bright red. I love growing this bean. On another note what size container do you start your pole beans when you are going to transplant them later into the garden?

Sorry I didn't understand your comment very well. Yes I offered you the Ice cream Sandwich because I thought it was a Lablab and you were growing that type. What do you think Icream Sandwich actually is?

I didn't think that bean #50 was Lablab bean. I definitely think it is a P. Vulgaris.

I'm not actually sure that was a Brazilian bean. So many of the photos especially limas were probably Brazilian beans I just copied many bean photos I found and put them in a file called Brazilian beans. This bean might be of European origin. I will keep my eye open for this bean to show up in...

Summer Bean Show 2024 Vol. #27 Bean photo #110 I found on Facebook. Someone in Europe that had bought Andromeda from me. Took a photo of a bunch of off types they had gotten from the bean. They were quite pleased with the variety of colors and seed coat types they were getting from Andromeda...

@heirloomgal, Here is a photo of a bean that has the same characteristic of the white stripe coming from the eye of the bean. I wonder How closely these two beans might be related. Bean #50

Take photos of your bean gardens new creations. We'd like to see them.

Summer Bean Show 2024 Vol. #26 Love these Bean Wheels. Somebody gots lots of patience to do this kind of stuff. I like that Ping Zebra Bean #103, Lots of white on the seed. Nice contrast between the red and the white. Bean Wheel #3.................................................Bean Wheel...

So I have beans to shell after all. I have a Seed Saver Exchange friend in Iowa that offered to grow beans for me this year. He stopped by my house Sunday the 15th and droped off 7 boxes of pods harvested from seed that I mailed to him last spring. He has a lot more for me to harvest. Last night...

@jbrobin09, I have striped off the leaves of my pole bean plants when it looks like the seed is very mature and sometimes when there is a hint of yellowing of the pods to facilitate pod drying. I have also taken my hand pruning shear and cut the vines through at the soil line. That will...

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...

Summer Bean Show 2024 Vol. #25 More lovely limas. Bean #95 (P. Vulgaris) looks like the bean "Money" with a white area on one end. Bean #100 another P. Vulgaris. Bean #94...........................................................Bean #95 Bean...