Bush Bean Varieties List

Rich, delicious bean flavor. Royal Burgundy performs exceptionally well under cool conditions. Buckskin color seeds. Purple outside with a bright green inside! The Royal Burgundy bean is absolutely delicious! This purple bean plant grows upright, 24 inch...

One of the most consistent, great tasting beans around. The Slenderwax is an easy-to-grow bean that is very care-free and disease resistant. Perfect for the gardener with little time.

6-7″ stringless pods are great young. This bush bean is a beautiful yet tasty bean! The fresh shell beans are large and round shaped. An Italian bean that can be eaten fresh, frozen or canned.

Seed sales in 1 oz., 1/4 lb., 1 lb., 5 lbs., 25 lbs. Seeds develop slowly and pods are virtually stringless and fiber-free. A prolific producer over a long season of beans that can be eaten fresh or frozen.

Also known as ‘Eastern Black Wax', these beans are bushy, vigorous, and resistant to rust and mosaic virus. The pods are golden color and grow to 5-7″ long. A highly productive and long standing bush bean.

We found it to be very prolific in our test garden. Excellent bean, high yields and straight pods. Very straight pods that look great for market selling. Improved Blue Lake bean. Fast maturing and small seeds when picked for fresh eating.

The bean pods are high off the ground for easy picking. The plant is very hardy and grows very straight. The Harvester bean has tender pods growing as long as 6″ long. Excellent taste and easy to grow.

Bean pods grow up to 8″ long but are best eaten early when they are 5″ and stringless. Mildew tolerant, great for short seasons and hot weather. Pick on the early end of the harvest date for smaller and more tender beans.

One of the best known beans around. Topcrop got it's name for a reason. Harvest on the early side of maturity to get small and tender beans. A great bean for canning and freezing. This bean plant grows a heavy, concentrated set of beans.

Fast maturing and easy to pick. The Cherokee bean is a great black bean for your home garden. Your standard black-seeded bean. Excellent cooking bean. This bean plant will have mature beans in just 50 days.

This gourmet blend is excellent for fresh eating and canning. A fun way to grow a beautiful mixture of garden beans. All bush varieties that are high yielding and mature around the same time! Even mix of Slenderette, Royal Burgundy Purple and Cherokee...

These bean plants will produce some of the highest bean yields you'll ever see. The Tendergreen Improved bean plant is a widely adapted home garden variety. Best eaten fresh. One of the highest yielding beans around.

You can see the slow development of seeds in the sliced bean picture. Roma II is a bush type bean plant that produces high yields of flavorful Italian green beans. Very slow to produce bean seeds which make it great for eating fresh.

Medium green, 5″ round pod with good disease tolerance. Continuous setting feature protects grower from stress, better than concentrated set types. Excellent flavor that is very popular with commercial growers.

Tall bush that keeps the bean pods off the ground. A very popular Latin favorite. A tasty variety that grows upright with black beans inside the pod.

You'll appreciate its rich, traditional bean flavor. Overall Rating:. They are also nitrogen-fixing legumes; beans gather nitrogen from the air and load it into the soil to feed future crops.

Best enjoyed at 6 inches long. Mexican bean beetles, bean weevils, cucumber beetles, spider mites. A* | Anthracnose BB | Bacterial Blight BBS | Bacterial Brown Spot BLS | Bacterial Leaf Spot BMV | Bean Mosaic Virus CTM | Curly Top Beet Mosaic Virus DM...

Maroon colored beans are decorated with darker red, cranberry markings. Cranberry Shell stores exceptionally well. This variety dates back to the 1800s and is well-suited to short-season, cool summer climates.

Bushy plants grow only 16-18 inches tall with big, white blooms followed by tender, stringless, tasty beans held high for easy spotting. Mexican bean beetles, bean weevils, cucumber beetles, spider mites.

Cooking the pods turns them a brilliant jade-green with a nearly stringless texture. Overall Rating:. They are also nitrogen-fixing legumes; beans gather nitrogen from the air and load it into the soil to feed future crops.

Upright, 24 inch tall plants hold their slightly-curved pods off the ground. Mexican bean beetles, bean weevils, cucumber beetles, spider mites. A* | Anthracnose BB | Bacterial Blight BBS | Bacterial Brown Spot BLS | Bacterial Leaf Spot BMV | Bean Mosaic...

Very productive over a long harvest season. Mexican bean beetles, bean weevils, cucumber beetles, spider mites. A* | Anthracnose BB | Bacterial Blight BBS | Bacterial Brown Spot BLS | Bacterial Leaf Spot BMV | Bean Mosaic Virus CTM | Curly Top Beet Mosaic...

We found the sweet, tasty pods to be at their prime eating quality at 4 1/2-5 1/2 inches long and 1/4 inch diameter. Mexican bean beetles, bean weevils, cucumber beetles, spider mites.

They are also nitrogen-fixing legumes; beans gather nitrogen from the air and load it into the soil to feed future crops. Store at 40-45°F and 95% relative humidity HR indicates high resistance.

This bush-habited version has everything the pole variety offers but in a compact plant that quickly matures loads of beans in a single flush. Optimum soil pH is 5.5-6.5, mildly acidic.

Speedy's super efficient maturity, rich flavor, and high yields make it an exceptional variety. Overall Rating:. They are also nitrogen-fixing legumes; beans gather nitrogen from the air and load it into the soil to feed future crops.

Dark-colored seeds germinate better in cool soil than white seeds.Plow under or remove and compost bean straw in the fall to hasten destruction of most disease organisms. Packet: 175 seeds.Choose well-drained soil with a pH above 6.0. After last frost...