64 Days. A very reliable and productive early maturing variety. Green-podded beans are good fresh, canned or frozen and are even good dried. This variety is rust-resistant. Noted for the distinctive tasty beans flavor of bouth fresh pods and dried light brown seeds. Pods are 9 - 10 inches long, almost stringles, meaty and of superb quality. Grows tall with vigorous vones and very high productivity. Also a fine shell bean.
1304 ~ LAZY WIFE POLE BEANS
80 Days. Brought to Pennsylvania by German settlers before 1810 and remained popular throughout the century. The 1888 Burpee catalog apologized for the name, "which seems rather discourteous to us, "but suggests that it comes for the variety's "immense productiveness". making it very easy to gather a dish, and from the ease with which they are cooked. Plants are slow to mature, but bear continually until frost. Pods are 5-6 inches long; seeds are white.
1307~ RATTLESNAKE POLE BEANS
Also known as the Preacher Bean, Because it is so productive, it is something to preach about. Strong climbing plants produce 8 inch rounded pods which can br harvested early for very sweet snap beans. Pods have purple streaks, like that of a rattlesnake, the beans are buff speckled with dark brown specks.
100 Days. Some say these seeds were brought over on the Mayflower in 1620. Grown in the Carolinas for centuries. Get flavor. They hold their shape when cooked. Very productive. Also good as a dry bean.
50 Seeds $2.99 pkg.
11316 ~ ORIENTAL YARD-LONG
The yardlong bean is also known as the long-podded cowpea, asparagus bean, snake bean, or Chinese long bean. It is known as dau gok in Cantonese, thua fak yao in Thai and kacang panjang in Malay. Despite the name, the pods are actually only about half a yard long; the subspecies name sesquipedalis (one-and-a-half-foot-long) is a rather exact approximation of the pods' length.
This plant is of a different genus and is only distantly related to the common bean. It is a vigorous climbing annual vine. A variety of the cowpea family, it is grown primarily for its strikingly long (35-75 cm) immature pods and has uses very similar to that of a green bean. The pods, which begin to form just 60 days after sowing, hang in pairs. They are best if picked for vegetable use before they reach full maturity. The plant is subtropical/tropical and most widely grown in the warmer parts of Southeastern Asia, Thailand, and Southern China. Yardlong beans are quick-growing and daily checking/harvesting is often a necessity.
