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Each plant only produces one color of seed, so I think they're probably just a family of segregations that have been grown together. (Honestly, not knowing the history of the bean, it could just be an African bean soup mix that was never actually grown together.) But they are all certainly...

All righty, my beans are in the mail! Will do a bean show with photos as soon as I finish laying the new floor in my living room... maybe Monday???? (I say that with great hope... :lol:) I tried to bag as many beans as possible for purity, and the first bagging of the season was nearly 100%. I...

Sounds good! I'll make sure to get them in the mail tomorrow. The HBH are mostly all dried now, it's just that you can still dent the seed coat on a few with a fingernail, so I'm concerned about freezing them just yet. October 13th/14th was my big bean harvest weekend; all the beans came down...

Do you mean mail by the 15th, or you need to receive them by the 15th? The Harriet's Black Hook are drying better now that they're in a big sieve with a bunch of dessicant packs, but I don't know that they're quite ready to go in the freezer yet. The rest of the beans are freezer-ready, but...

I have the sitting in a big sieve now, with the dessicant packets mixed in (I got a TON of beans off these plants, they were monsters!). I did have them in a couple (open) jars at first, so I maybe they just need more time in the sieve with better air circulation...

I grew these as well this year, from the bonus seed you sent me, and it grew like a champ! I grew 4 plants and got more than a quart mason jar of beans back (I mean, they're big beans, so maybe that's not so impressive, but still...). I did have the bean bed on a drip system (since we get...

Hopefully mine will be in the mail soon -- all of my seed is dry, except for the Harriet's Black Hook, which seem to have gotten to the stage where they're semi-hard but you can still easily mark them with your fingernail... and then stopped. They've been like that for over a month. I have a...

That is an awesome idea; it would be WAY less wear and tear than washing them.

Woohoo, finally got my keyboard issue fixed! Happy to see what everyone's up to. @aftermidnight, do you (or how do you) clean the tulle bags between uses? I accidentally transferred some spider mites to a few other plants, I think with the tulle bags, before I realized the spider mites had...

The Bohnen-Atlas is such a neat resource (and taking all those photos lets you play with beans in the off-season, lol). It's like the Wikipedia for beans. Thank goodness for Google Translate! As far as I know it's just one lady who runs the site, so it took a couple days for her to approve me...

All the beans I transplanted have really seemed to kick in in the last couple weeks... the first pole bean (an Auntie Wilder) hit the top of its pole yesterday! It's beautiful to see. :) Gordo, one of the "unknown" network beans I'm growing out, sure seems to be living up to its name! The dry...

Here too! We got hail on Sunday -- biggest hail I've ever seen here -- and then it's supposed to hit 98 degrees by the end of the week. :idunnoAt least the hail didn't hurt the beans!!

If you need some more Minnie Shatterly, I have some I can send you. :)

That was really interesting! Thanks for posting it! :)

What an amazing garden! You have done an awesome job. LOVE all the different uses for rocks! ;) Wood chips get weeds too, but at least they're a bit easier to pull out.

It is warm enough to plant outside (this year, at least) -- it's been in the 70s or 80s all this week! Although I certainly wasn't expecting them to sprout this fast. I'm going to grow everything inside under the grow light until they have their first couple leaves, since we have a bit of a...

So I've had pretty good luck getting bean seed to sprout between two damp microfiber cloths, in one of those clear 2-lb spinach tubs, under a grow light. But holy bejeebers -- I put Mugungi, Gordo, and Harriet's Black Hook in a tub yesterday morning, and just came home to find 4 of 6 Gordo had...

Totally! :) Instead of those, let's do Harriet's Black Hook, Rwanda Rainbow, Small Speckled Bunch, and Giant Red Tarka.

Annette, I'm so glad you'll still be around this year even if you won't be growing network beans! It looks like Victory Seeds is now planning to re-offer Ralph's Italian for the 2020 season... so eventually they'll be back! I didn't remember seeing that note the last time I looked.

Aha, so that's why they weren't on the list! :) In place of those three, I'll do Harriet's Black Hook, Rwanda Rainbow, and Small Speckled Bunch.