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We get little postal increases here sometime two or three times in a year. January 19,2025 the US postal service will increase the cost of all packages 3.2%. Little by little they keep chipping it up.

OMG what a time you had getting a package off in the mail ! I know those emotions you felt. I try to double check everything before I take off for the post office. Yes it would be something so easy if you were #51. Wouldn't have to mess around with all this USDA fiddly stuff. Packages I send you...

Do you have photos of your cattle panel arches when they are up and installed in your garden. It would be interesting to see that.

I would highly recommend anyone who starts to develop a seed collection that can not be regrown every 5 years should have freezer space for seed. When collections get big enough it's sometime easy to forget about a cultivar and lose it to age.

This Rio Zape is not the standard heirloom Rio Zape but was rebred by the University of California at Davis to be resistant to Mosaic virus. They also increased it's productivity by 20 per cent over it's heirloom parent. So I would like to see this one grown and to have an increase of it's seed.

Van Gogh's Olive - Semi Runner Dry. Left Photo. This bean was probably named by Joesph Simcox who collected the bean somewhere overseas. The inspiration for the name to me obviously comes from the painter Van Gogh and his paintings of olive trees. The bean itself is productive. This years...

As we begin our thirteenth year. I think of all the wonderful bean varieties and varieties of everything humans usually grow for themselves. All that we are blessed with today. How marvelous it is that we can experience them. I think if most of what we have today was if not saved in the past...

Tennessee Mountain Climber - Pole Snap. Left Photo. It was given to me at the 2022 Pikeville, Kentucky seed swap. I wonder if the bean is stringless. This years grower is from Mason, Michigan Tunny - Pole Dry. Photo right. I acquired this beautiful bean from Beans And Herbs in the UK. My...

Staley's Surprise - Bush/Dry/Snap? Photo Left. Sir Aurthur Staley was an Australian seedsman of the late 19th and early 20th century. He had two original beans. One was a bush and one a pole growth habit. I don't know if this bean is actually a snap bean or dry bean. I've never tried them for...

I have never heard of Wooly beans. Have you seen a description of what they are like?

Soissons Large white - Pole Dry. Photo Left. A rare heirloom bean grown since the mid eighteenth century near Soissons, France. According to some, a French strain of the old fashioned Case Knife Bean. It was introduced to America in 1841 according to the Magazine of Horticulture. This bean was...

Grandma Barnett - Pole Snap. Left Photo. The grandmother of a very well known Kentucky bean grower grew this bean. I don't know if it's stringless or if you have to destring the pods. Before Remy Orlowski passed away she offered this bean on her online Sample Seed Shop website. Karen Golden of...

This bean I have must not be an authentic Lengua de Lobo. I posted it on a facebook bean group and Guy Dirix tells me he's grown Lengua de Lobo and it's one of the earliest beans he's ever grown. He tells me it has purple pods. It's amazing that the bean I have has the same color and color tone...

Pink Standard - Pole Lima. The bean originates in Peru. It is not daylength sensitive. About as productive as most limas I have grown. I acquired this bean from a fellow in Iowa who had a lima collection. I believe he acquired the bean from the USDA seed bank in Pullman, Washington. This year...

No I did not input those lyrics. AI did all the words. I just wrote a short sentence or two what the song was to be about.

In this second song. I gave it some ideas about some of my original named beans and I thought it turned very nice. Below are the words and after that the link to the song. Field Of Beans [Verse] Fifty years under the sun Growing beans one by one Sending seeds to lands unknown In the soil...

Just for the heck of it I tried my hand of at creating an Artificial Intelligence songs of my life with beans. I created two AI songs the first one is below. After the lyrics is the link to the song. The second song one is in the post after. The Bean Legacy [Verse] Started small in a...

Red Calico - Pole Lima. Left Photo. This lima matures in over 100 days in season with other limas I have like Florida Specckled. I obtained this bean from a Seed Savers Exchange member from Tennessee in 2011 T.B Thweat. This family has grown this lima since 1790. This lima is said to have...

The little pots will be 8 oz. Styrofoam cups. I will use potting mix to fill the cups and plant one seed in each cup.

I got the last of the bean racks assembled this morning. I put together a few of them Monday and Tuesday. The last four of them this morning. Now I can move 198 bean seedlings in and out of the house during the period in early May when I want to get pole beans started early to plant later in...