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@Triffid How extremely interesting! Quite a story and amazing detective work on your part. I imagine it helped a little that Dunahoo is an unusual name. And so rewarding that a really good bean has emerged from the muddle. I assume you must be the first person to grow it for the network. It...

Those are beautiful beans, Triffid. I love the pinkish colouration. Is that a photo of your own freshly harvested beans? Presumably they lose that colouring in store and end up with the more neutral tones of Bluejay77’s photo. And a great piece of research into the Japanese series of selections...

Interesting. In the UK, the name gooseberry always refers to Ribes uva-crispa and is a very commonly grown garden fruit.

I’m enjoying several of the network beans I’m growing this year. Lilashecke is a delight. It’s producing plentiful light yellow arced beans, good for eating as snap. It’s a little more yellow than the photo suggests Another one is Dow Purple Pod which raced to the tops of the canes early...

In the winter please remind me to send you some of the 'long reddish' Blackpod variant I identified last season - maybe they will be more to your liking. This year they continue to have longer pods than the original, and develop pigmentation while the pods are still young and slender. Thank...

I would just add one variety to Triffid’s excellently full list of purple podded scarlet runner beans. I’m growing one called Mrs Cannell’s Black. On the whole I don’t really enjoy the culinary qualities of purple podded runner beans. They seem to be tougher than I like before they develop their...

Scarlet runner beans, Phaseolus coccineus, are traditionally the bean of choice in Britain, for eating as a green bean. My father, who grew only the one vegetable, grew runner beans every year. He had a trellis which remained in place at the bottom of our garden and the beans were his pride and...

I'm growing La Vigneronne as a network bean. It's a bean with splashes of red on the pods. Of the four plants I have, one is throwing plain green pods and is more vigorous that the true plants. I wondered whether there are any other reports of this stock of La Vigneronne having crossed or not...

When I was using just unsupported cane teepees, they regularly had to be rescued with guy ropes and heavy stakes. The whole garden became crisscrossed guy ropes and you couldn’t get down the paths for access or mowing. Not satisfactory! Eventually I constructed some wooden frameworks to support...

That really is a work of art. I love it! But unfortunately I think we must have stronger winds than in New England, as we seem to need thicker posts and more bracing to withstand the occasional gale force winds we get once or twice a season.

Very pleased to have this history as I’m growing Noir de Belgique too - from the same source. Thanks for the great research.

Interesting. How big a block do you go for? My concern would be that it might be more difficult to get to the pods in the centre of the block for picking?

The weather here in eastern UK has also been quite kind. No late frosts, some good soaking rains about 10 days ago, and now warm. I agree that Dow Purple Pod is fast growing and racing ahead. For me too it is leading the race up the poles (followed by Mantra).

Could it be a Viburnum? Viburnum dentatum, for example.

After a lot of trouble with voles and mice I now use a lot of plastic water or milk bottles with the top and bottom cut off. These make a tall collar which I hold in place with a stick or cane. It’s made a great difference. I guess it only works for transplants.

YEs, I do remember and did wonder whether it was growing conditions. The seed I received was indeed a bit more coloured, somewhere between yours and mine perhaps. For comparison - mine, donors, yours..... I rather like yours!

I grew the bush bean Squaw this year and found it healthy and productive. It's difficult to find out much about it thoughexcept that I think it has been offered by Sandhill Preservation Centre at some point. Also looking back at past Easy Garden threads, I find that you received it in 2016...

I grew Mona Lisa last year from seed supplied by Bohnen-Atlas. It's very beautiful but wasn't very productive for me.

Thank you! Yes, I was intrigued by the Mascherina del Cadore which seems to mean Mask from Cadore. I don't think I've met a bean with that kind of bi-colouring where the coloured section is so clearly stripy. I'm also interested in what the definition of a borlotto bean. I guess they are...

And another one: Mascherina del Cadore