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Gialèt della Val Belluna Another prolific producer. I loved this bean. It is adopted by the Slow Food Foundation and was originally specific to the Belluna valley in northern Italy. It is valued for its gently flavour as a dried bean but it is also very satisfying to shell for fresh light yellow-green shelled beans. If you remove the string the pod falls open satisfyingly for shelling. I received these originally several years ago in a swap with an Italian grower. It also goes under the name Solferino.


Papa de Rola. Another good producer which can be used for green beans as well as dried. My seeds came in a swap with a Canadian grower.


Paul Bunyan Giant. This produces large flat pods up to about 10-12" long with slightly flattened seeds in side them. Although pods are very large there aren't that many of them but overall satisfyingly productive. Another Canadian swap. It was originally obtained by Russ Crow from a New Zealand Bean Project.

I have also beans with that naam,maybe the same bean with a different name.

Quote from: ruud on October 26, 2025, 08:38:06https://tohumbaba.com/urun/fasulye-seker-fasulye/ did you find this side.

Is that the same bean, Ruud? It has a different name

https://tohumbaba.com/urun/fasulye-seker-fasulye/ did you find this side.

Hi Ruud. Thanks for all these. Very interesting. It's always interesting to have your contributions, and your connection with Turkey yields lots of interesting varieties. I looked up Acman Ayse Sirik as it sounded Turkish. It seems that Ayse is a type of high yielding, tender, white seeded climbing bean. Does that match your experience of it? There's a variant of Ayse called Alman Ayse. Could that be the one? And Sirik means climbing rather than dwarf. Certainly one to look forward to. And I'm particularly looking forward to Reading Purple too.

I'd love to know how you got on with Roodnerf Brussel sprout. It looks like a great heirloom variety with redd veins in the leaves. When I've grown brussel sprouts from open pollinated seed they've often been rather blown although I once did well with Groninger. It's about time to try a new OP variety. Thanks for including that one.

Hello everybody,here a message from over the pond,been busy collecting seeds for the seedcircle.I also have a lot of old seedswho are expired from there date but still will germinated,if there is intrest.I will here it from you.Till know i have for the seedcircle the following seeds"beans:selma zestra
                                                                   reading purple
                                                                   mantra
                                                                   acman ayse sirik
                                                                   bosnian
                                                                   golden sunshine
These are all pole beans,there are more varieties in progres,still drying.
I also have some herbs:turkish parsley,turkish dill.
I am going through all my seeds till know i have for the seedcircle:brussel sprouts roodnerf 2025
                                                                                    long island 2024
                                                                    turnip de milan 2023
                                                                            kirmizi pancar
                                                                    multicolour chard 2023
                                                                    scorzonera long black 2023
                                                                    okra clemson spineless 2022
                                                                    Lettuce yedikule 5701 2025
                                                                    rocket 2022
                                                                    basil 2024
                                                                    borage 2022
                                                                    mayweed 2024
                                                                    koriander 2024
Still to come a lot of melons,pumpkins,tomatoes,pepers,etc.Will be continued.   

Quote from: galina on October 23, 2025, 18:45:20I note that it gives you options what size of photo to insert, but they are not easy to use. I have inserted the potato photo, but left auto as the size.  It will be interesting to see what size that insert will display, as I cannot currently see it before post is clicked.  This is different to how I normally attach photos, but I wanted to try your method, JanG. 

Yes, I haven't experimented with the number of pixels and I guess when using auto the size of the original photo file determines the size it appears in loco.

And yes, this also results in a huge photo, with a smaller photo at the bottom. 

So here once again the same photo.



And then the rest of the text.  I note that it gives you options what size of photo to insert, but they are not easy to use. I have inserted the potato photo, but left auto as the size.  It will be interesting to see what size that insert will display, as I cannot currently see it before post is clicked.  This is different to how I normally attach photos, but I wanted to try your method, JanG. 

I think you can fairly easily add photos where you want them whichever method you use. You just need to click in the right place and then click the 'Insert' on the photo.

I'm realising after again reading your last but one message, Galina, that mine come up large because I had assumed that I needed to click Insert rather than just leave them at the bottom of the message. .