Heirloom Pole Beans

A home garden standard for generations. Great color of dark purple stripes on top of dark green skin. Rattlesnake is a popular, heavy producing pole bean. Absolutely beautiful and tasty.

Stringless pole bean that is very tasty! Blue Lake beans are known for reliability, disease resistance, flavor and high yields. Perfect for those who are tired of bending over to pick beans, but still want the high yield of a bush bean.

1/4 lb., 1 lb., 5 lbs., 25 lbs. An all-purpose bean that taste great fresh, freezing or canning when pods are young. Heirloom pole bean plant with high yields and dark green color! Delicious heirloom pole bean with heavy yields.

A stringless, fast maturing pole bean. Harvest early for best stringless beans. Provider beans can be planted earlier than other beans because it germinates well in cool soils. Provider has compact bean plants that are easy to establish and adapt well...

Overall Rating:. See chart below. Harvested at their peak, you'll find them tender, meaty, and full of hearty, fresh bean flavor. This vigorous, 7 foot tall variety made Oregon's Willamette Valley famous in the 60s and 70s for canning beans.

Ready for harvest about 2 weeks after bloom. Mexican bean beetles, bean weevils, cucumber beetles, spider mites. Optimum soil pH is 5.5-6.5, mildly acidic. Beans are shallow rooted and can require up to 1/4 inch of water a day during hot weather.

Overall Rating:. See chart below. Tall-growing plants put these superb beans within easy reach for picking, and heavy harvests provide plenty for fresh eating and preserving. Malibu offers everything we look for in a green bean: strong, healthy plants...

Pick when pods are nearly full size and seeds are still small. IR indicates intermediate resistance. Sturdy 6-8 foot vines readily set highly refined, slightly flattened pods that maintain superb flavor and tenderness even when they reach 6-7 inches long.

Pick when pods are nearly full size and seeds are still small. IR indicates intermediate resistance. First as a tender, refreshing edible podded bean, then later as a hearty, flavorful dried bean.

Rich and flavorful beans are fiber-packed veggies that promote digestive health and are excellent sources of antioxidants that scavenge free radicals in the body. An AAS award winner for its uniformity, flavor and stringless texture.

Overall Rating:. See chart below. The pods are tasty and stringless even when they're mature at almost 10 inches long and 1 inch wide. Usher in the pole bean season with this amazingly productive Romano.

Pick when pods are nearly full size and seeds are still small. IR indicates intermediate resistance. These slender, refined beans, synonymous with French/filet types, grow to 8 inches long with a tender texture and delicious, mild bean flavor graced with...

They are also nitrogen-fixing legumes; beans gather nitrogen from the air and load it into the soil to feed future crops. Apply 1 cup of TSC's Complete fertilizer per 10 row feet, and 1 inch of compost.

Overall Rating:. See chart below. Highly productive plants yield loads of uniform, tender and flavorful, rounded pods. Thanks to advancements in pole bean breeding, Monte Cristo is a new generation of the ever-popular Blue Lake type of bean.

Also a heavy long-term yielder. They come out of the freezer just like they were put in. A heavy yielding lima bean. A great top pole Lima bean. Great freezing bean. King of the Garden Pole variety is our best freezing bean variety.

A perfect bean for warmer climates. Have an excellent semi-rich flavor. The Christmas bean will grow great in both warmer and cooler temperatures. The seeds turn pink-brown when cooked.

16-20" long beans are borne in clusters of up to four beans each. Practice a 3-year crop rotation, preferably into corn or grain crops. Anchor bottom of trellis with stakes or hoops of 9-gauge wire.Plow under or remove and compost bean straw in the fall...

If using poles, plant 7 seeds at the base of each pole.Drill a single row of seeds on open ground or through black plastic mulch. Practice a 3-year crop rotation, preferably into corn or grain crops.

For large trellised plantings, place fence posts 8–10' apart, and support a 9-gauge galvanized wire at the top. Suitable for fresh use in salads or cooked. 1,400 seeds/lb. With twine, lash trellis to the wire (or zigzag our naturalbetween the top wire...

If using poles, plant 7 seeds at the base of each pole.Drill a single row of seeds on open ground or through black plastic mulch. Practice a 3-year crop rotation, preferably into corn or grain crops.

1,200 seeds/lb. Anchor bottom of trellis with stakes or hoops of 9-gauge wire.Plow under or remove and compost bean straw in the fall to hasten destruction of most disease organisms.

A more widely adapted day-neutral variety of a subtropical Asian specialty. Practice a 3-year crop rotation, preferably into corn or grain crops. Anchor bottom of trellis with stakes or hoops of 9-gauge wire.Plow under or remove and compost bean straw...

This early maturing, Roma-type pole bean has a deliciously rich, sweet flavor. Practice a 3-year crop rotation, preferably into corn or grain crops. Anchor bottom of trellis with stakes or hoops of 9-gauge wire.Plow under or remove and compost bean straw...

Proven tops for productivity, flavor and wide adaptability. Heat-resistant plants thrive in adverse conditions. A great bean that can be planted early and first to harvest. Heavy yields of 4″ pods, with 3-5 large beans each.