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Hello everyone and hello @Bluejay , I just wanted to say that the network beans safely arrived. This is always so much fun! If I had something to decide I would let start springtime right away.

Novartis! This is a name which I connected with the development of pharmaceutical products so far. I still have much to learn.

I also could maybe help. I understand somewhat of the Flemish/Dutch language.

Probably pourly translated by me, sorry🫢 I think, it was an internal marker to put this parcel (and hundreds of others) temporarily aside for the colleague-officer who operates the X-ray device. I am even more glad it made it !!😄

Or.. the officers of the customs authority haven't noticed yet that there are new EU standards.. Who knows! But seriously: if there indeed should remain this difference btw. our EU countries, you or @Paul G or whoever are welcome to have their ordered shipments have sent so me, and I could send...

@heirloomgal ! Stop torturing people with pictures of the Holy Ugandan Bantu, especially when they are unable to reach them yet! But those black mini-Favas are also absolutely gorgeous! They are also on my must-have list. So: Have fun with all your new treasuries and keep us all updated! ☺️

Yes, FB.. In the beginning it was a neat new media which was really fun, especially when you found old acquaintances from several countries and could get back into contact with them. But since FB started blocking and punish users in large scales for absolutely nothing I refrained thoroughly from...

Hello @Bluejay77 , your network beans have arrived today! Hooray! It took exactly 14 days. Not bad. And: this time with a green sticker on it saying "Shipment to be scanned" (in German). A precious contribution to phytosanitariness, I'm sure. Or to detect evil candylike formed drug samples...

Thank you so much for your detailed and informative reply☺️ Again I found that it is the 'little people' who just want to live in peace and have their little joys with seeds or whatever but have to face the music [in German we would say: to eat out the soup] that others compound. And only...

I did so with Ruanda Rainbow last season. I made notes about colour and shape of every bean in the soil to have a control what would come out. (The rainbowy thing nearly vanished, by the way. Even the only pinkish one that was in the sample bag, produced only medium browns like most of the...

Yes, @heirloomgal , I also do have the impression that it has little to do with "phytosanitary" but seems rather a political answer to the import restrictions of the U.S. - and obviously Canada, too. If the byway 'England' could help (but I know nobody there) I cannot say. I noticed only that...

Last year at least it still worked that way, @Bluejay77 . Your network shipment for this season hasn't arrived yet. I will inform you at once about its arrival. @Artorius: Hello fellow sufferer. Since we both are sitting in the same boat: do you happen to have any recent experiences in this...

Oh.. those terrific Ugandan Bantu..!! I just love them! Lucky you!! By the way: last week I was on a website of the Canadian PEI Seed Alliance and wanted to order Ugangan Bantu (and two other varieties), but this is just another company which doesn't want to ship abroad! And also the Seed...

The ones on the photos are pretty, @Triffid , but for looong not curved enough! The ones I grew had mostly the shape of a C and in size they often fitted in an average cup. (I really must find a solution for posting some photos! It's a shame..) An the colour of the seeds is a blurred wine-red.

So this is Grand-mère.. because I have a still unnamed bean here from some no-name mix, and these beans look a lot, a lot! like the ones on this photo. Also this slightly aquarellish skin tone. The ones I have here produce very much curved, halfmoonlike green pods; very hard when dry. Your's...

Gee! I am really relieved! So, life isn't all that bad after all 😄 Thank you very much for letting me know, @Bluejay77 ! Priority list 2023 - here I come!

She said such small boxes can easily get lost in that half-automated transportation process and showed me a gauge with the preferred min/max measures (but only when the parcel had already its shipping label sticked on and had been paid), and yes, afterwards a friend also told me that when...

Ah, thank you. At least there is still hope. At the post office I had been scolded by the employee to wit regarding the small size of the parcel (I used the very cardboard box you had used for sending to me). I already regretted not having taken it back home and put it in a bigger one, but I did...

Belated Happy New Year to you all!🍀 Hello @Bluejay77 , I would like to ask you if my returned network beans have hopefully already reached you (or have you news that they have arrived in Linden)? I sent them on Dec. 14th and I am getting slightly uneasy..

Those on your photo seem to develop that dark ring around the navel, which would count for 'my' Sulphur. But the seeds that I know are stouter; rather more egg-shaped.