It has been a very dry year here in Iowa and I have not watered thus all of my legumes are quite a bit behind. Now it is a race to the first frost for all of my seed saving efforts, I think it is going to be close.

• My snap bush beans(Empress, Cherokee Wax) have produced very well this year for fresh eating.
• My snap pole beans(Migliorucci,Landfrauen,Nell's Climbing, Bosnian Yellow Pod) are behind this season and just starting to produce.
• My dry bush beans(Hutterite,Dr Wyches Russian) are on track, other than a tiller incident earlier in the season.
• My surprise bush cowpea(Biwa Sitter), from the regional meskwaki tribe is doing quite well. I thought this would be a dry bush bean when planted.
• My bush cowpea(Purple Hull) are drying quite well and as always has been a great cowpea here in Iowa for me.
• A few more I will talk about later.

Looking forward to hear about everyone's results.

thanks,
Dean

Two planted late and flowering now, Blue Greasy Grit and Barksdale will give us some beans but very doubtful about collecting seed, made a note to plant earlier next year.

I had one Ukrainian Runner (pole) seed given to me, it didn't germinate, seed very similar to Gigandes and Samos Greek Lima, given one more, very shy with flowers has only a couple. I planted it in a tub and will move it to the greenhouse if necessary. In the pic below left to right Gigandes, Ukrainian, Samos.

The only pea I grew was the Shiraz snow pea, put a short row in and had a bumper crop, we ate all we wanted and harvested quite a bit of seed. I planted 12 of these, they are up and growing, curious to see if they stay that beautiful black purple color, if we're lucky we'll get another taste.

All in all I can't complain what with the weather we've had this year. Annette

Jim

Jim

Annette