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Old October 6, 2021   #25
rxkeith
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i have just picked a nice bag of mature beans for seed saving. big sigh of relief.
we have had rather nice weather into october this year. normally we have had a frost
or two or three.....


i have a few plants that produced some nice fat romano type beans that are green, and purple streaked that i want to carry forward. seed color varies between a larger uncle steve look a like to a cranberry looking bean with white speckles.


i also have a green romano type that only starts streaking with purple at late maturity. seed color is either a lighter plum purple or black. the larger of the two seem to be the plum color type. this one took a little while longer to get growing, and
producing. in a normal weather year, saving seed might be a challenge.



there are a few other variations of bean out there, but these two seem to be the most promising to pursue.


no beans from the cross made it into the pot this year due to seed saving concerns.
i did sample some of each type raw in the garden.





keith
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