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Cherokee Trail of Tears Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
5 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Pole dry and snap bean. Plants bear 6-inch green pods with purple overlay and shiny, jet-black seeds.
Asparagus Yardlong Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
4 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 80-80
Description: Pole green bean with large pods best picked before they reach 18 inches. Prefers hot climate. Also known as 'Red-Seeded Asparagus'.
Jumbo Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
4 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush, Italian Romano type, a cross between Romano and Kentucky Wonder. Pick beans flat-podded beans when they are 6 to 7 inches long, but will stay stringless up to 10 inches. Plants may grow short vines in fertile soil but do not need support. Resistant to bean mosaic virus.
Empress Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
3 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush green bean. Plants bear straight, 5- to 6-inch stringless pods.
Gold Mine Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 53-55
Description: Bush yellow (wax) beans with 5- to 5 1/2-inch, smooth, straigh,t bright-yellow pods with white beans borne in clusters. Resistant to bacterial brown spot, bean mosaic virus, common bean mosaic and halo blight.
Greencrop Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 51-55
Description: Bush green/Romano bean with flat, wide, stringless, 8-inch pods with white beans. All American Selection. Resistant to common bean mosaic and bean mosaic virus.
Kentucky King Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 57-57
Description: Bush green bean bearing clusters of flat, 7-inch pods. Bush form of Kentucky Wonder.
Straight 'N Narrow Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 53-53
Description: Bush green/French filet bean with 18-inch plants bearing round, 5-inch, dark-green pods.
Willow Leaf Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Heirloom pole lima bean with 3 1/2-inch pods containing 3 or 4 creamy white beans. Heat and drought resistant.
Morgane Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: French filet type. Slim, 6- to 8-inch, green pods. Disease resistant.
Grandma Nellie's Yellow Mushroom Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Pole yellow (wax) bean. Vines bear yellow pods that are tender when picked at 5 inches and taste somewhat like mushrooms when cooked.
Hidatsa Shield Figure Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Pole dry bean. Vines bear white beans with speckled tan "shield."
Sieva Lima Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 60-75
Description: Pole lima bean. Dark green, 9- to 10-foot vines bear broad, flat, medium-green, 3- to 4-inch pods with small white seeds.
Red Noodle Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 80-80
Description: Asian yard long type. Vines bear 16- to 22-inch, red, stringless pods with small seeds with pods in clusters of up to four. Color fades when cooked. Plants thrive in heat. Also known as 'Chinese Red Noodle'.
Ura Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Green pole bean. 8-foot or taller plants bear 6- to 7-inch dark green, pencil-thick, white-seeded pods.
Blue Coco Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 59-59
Description: Heirloom pole bean. Vines with purple-tinged leaves bear bluish-purple, fleshy, slightly curved, flattened 6- to 7 1/2-inch pods with chocolate-colored seeds.
Black Seed Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Asian yard long type. Vines bear 12- to 24-inch, dark-green pods.
October Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 85-90
Description: Native American bush dry bean from Tennessee. Cream-colored seeds are speckled with reddish-purple.
Black Jet Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 104-104
Description: Bush soybean. 2-foot plants bear thin-skinned, medium, jet-black beans.
Brio Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 54-54
Description: Bush green bean. 5 1/4-inch, medium-green, slender, round, stringless beans with low fiber and white beans. Resistant to common bean mosaic. Heat tolerant.
Bronco Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 53-53
Description: Bush green bean. 5 1/2-inch, medium-green, shiny, slender pods containing white beans. Resistant to common bean mosaic.
Carson Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 56-56
Description: Bush yellow (wax) bean with 5 1/4-inch, round, slim, yellow beans containing white seeds. Resistant to anthracnose, bacterial brown spot and bean mosaic virus (race 15).
Delinel Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush French filet beans with upright plants bearing clusters of 6 to 12 green pods that can reach 6 1/2- to 7-inches long. Harvest at 3 inches for baby filet beans. Good disease resistance.
Dixie Speckled Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 76-76
Description: Bush lima bean with 21-inch plants. Drought tolerant. Can also harvest dry beans in 90 days.
Drabo Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 86-86
Description: Bush dry bean with large, oblong, white beans.
Etna Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 68-68
Description: Bush dry bean with 6-inch, cranberry pods and buff beans with red and green speckles. Resistant to common bean mosaic.
Florence Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 49-50
Description: Bush green bean with straight, 5- to 6-inch, dark-green pods borne high on plant. Slow seed development. Disease resistant.
Hurricane Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 50-50
Description: Bush green bean with round, light-green 5- to 6-inch pods. Produces well in hot, dry weather.
Liana Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 80-80
Description: Sub-tropical, Asian specialty bean. Vines up to 10 feet long bear 12- to 18-inch by 1/4-inch stringless pods with black beans.
Montpelier Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 56-56
Description: Bush green/French filet bead with upright plants bearing straight, pencil-thin, round, 6- by 1/4-inch, dark-green pods with slowly developing bean. Good disease resistance. Also known as 'Montpellier French'.
Pinkeye Purple Hull Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Bush cowpea with pink peas.
Romanette Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush Italian-type green/Romano bean with 6- by 3/4-inch, flat pods with white beans that can be used shelled. Resistant to one or more races of bean mosaic.
Sayamusume Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 75-92
Description: Edible edamame soybean. 16- to 20-inch plants bear with dark-green pods with three large beans in each.
Storm Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 51-51
Description: Bush green bean with 5 1/2-inch, straight, round, medium-green pods with brown beans. Resistant to common bean mosaic and rust.
Stringless Blue Lake Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 60-65
Description: Pole green bean with 6- to 7-foot vines bearing 6- to 6 1/2-inch, slender, smooth, clustered pods. All American Selection 2003
Thorogreen Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 66-66
Description: Bush lima bean with 18-inch, upright plants with 3 inch pods. Long harvest season. Also known as 'Allgreen'.
Volunteer Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Half-runner dry kidney bean with 4 1/2-inch, light-green pods with 3 or 4 beans. Resistant to common bean mosaic and rust.
Yellow Romano Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 74-74
Description: Pole yellow (wax)/Italian Romano type with 8 foot vines bearing creamy yellow, 5-inch, flat pods.
Borlotto (Pole) Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Italian soup pole bean. Vines bear 8- to 12-inch, multicolored pods for fresh use, or harvest white beans with red speckles for dry use. Also known as 'Borlotto Lignua di Fuoco'.
The Prince Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: French green bean with long, slim oval 6 1/2-inch green pods.
Medinah Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 53-53
Description: Bush green bean. Upright plants bear slender dark green, straight, 5-inch pods. White seeds.
Tavera Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 54-54
Description: Bush green French filet beans. Medium-sized plants bear 4- to 5-inch, medium-dark green, round pods. Small white seeds. Resistant to anthracnose and bean mosaic virus.
Italian Rose Bush Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 70-70
Description: Italian bush bean used shelled in soups and pasta dishes. Vines bear multicolored rose-on-cream pods
Golden of Bacau Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 60-70
Description: Pole Romano bean. Vines bear 6- to 10-inch by 1-inch, flattened, golden beans that remain stringless and edible even when the seeds begin to form.
Jeminez Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 80-80
Description: Romano-type pole bean with red-purple streaked pods.
Old Dutch Half Runner Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Bush green bean. 3-foot plants bear 5-inch, light green pods that are stringless when young. Also known as 'Mountaineer White Half Runner'.
State Half Runner Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Bush green bean. 3-foot, semi-vining plants do not require staking and bear 4-inch pods with strong, beany flavor.
Chinese Mosaic Long Bean Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Asian pole bean. Vines bear lavender-pink, 12- to 18-inch pods.
Violet Podded Stringless Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 70-70
Description: Open-pollinated, purple-podded, pole bean. 5-foot vines bear 6- to 7-inch, brown-seeded, purple beans that turn green when cooked.
Louisiana Purple Pod Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 67-67
Description: Heirloom pole bean. Drought-tolerant, purple-green vines with textured leaves and bright purple stems and flowers bear bright purple, 7-inch pods that turn green when cooked. Harvest when young and stringless. Seeds are light to medium brown.
Hidatsa Indian Red Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 80-80
Description: Bush dry bean of Native American origin. Semi-twining plants bear pods with deep-red seeds with occasional white sports.
Tobacco Worm Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Heirloom pole snap bean from eastern Kentucky. Vines bear large green pods with an average of 6 beans. Pods stay tender until they begin to turn yellow.
Meraviglia Venezia Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 55-60
Description: Early Italian yellow pole Romano type. Vines bear yellow pods that grow to 10 inches or more while remaining tender and stringless.
Baguette Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 41-55
Description: Bush French filet type. Plants bear waxy, slender, dark-green, 6- to 7-inch, very sweet beans. Very low in fiber so beans don't freeze well and turn to much if overcooked. Originally from Northrup King, but dropped from trade in 2000. Only available to members of Seed Savers Exchange, accession number: SSE bean 5293.
Weinlanderin Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 65-65
Description: Swiss heirloom pole green bean. Vines bear 5- to 6-inch, stringless, light-green pods with purple mottling.
Jacob's Gold Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 80-80
Description: Bush dry bean similar to 'Jacob’s Cattle' except for the color, which is a mottled goldish-tan.
Uncle Steve's Italian Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 70-70
Description: Pole green/purple-podded bean. Vines bear variegated green pods with purple stripes that are slightly curved at the end
Dr. Martins Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 90-100
Description: Heirloom pole lima bean. Vines up to 12 feet tall bear 5-inch pods with 3 or 4 large beans.
Blue Lake S-7 Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Pole green bean. (Improved 'Blue Lake'-type.) 7-foot vines bear 6- to 6 1/2-inch, smooth, round, stringless, dark-green pods with white seeds that are slow to develop
Alicante Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: French filet bush green bean. Plants bear round, straight, 5-inch, dark-green pods.
Hialeah Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 53-53
Description: Bush green bean. Upright plants bear green pods in concentrated harvest. Resistant to Bean common mosaic virus.
Smeraldo Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Romano-type pole bean from Northern Italy. 4- to 6-foot vines bear 8- to 10-inch, flat, stringless pods.
Valentino Beans Overall Rating: (5.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 53-53
Description: Bush green bean. Plants bear 6-inch, glossy, dark green pods high on plants in concentrated set. Resistant to common bean mosaic and rust. Heat tolerant.
Emerite Beans Overall Rating: (4.9 Stars):
11 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 53-64
Description: Pole green bean with slim, straight, round, smooth, light-green pods. Harvest at 4 to 5 inches for filet or 7 inches for snap.
Jade Beans Overall Rating: (4.7 Stars):
12 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 53-57
Description: Bush green bean with upright plants bearing straight, slender 6- to 7-inch, deep-green pods with pale-green beans. Tolerant of heat and cold. Resistant to bean mosaic virus (race 15), common bean mosaic, curly top virus and rust. Stress and heat tolerant.
Burpee's Stringless Green Pod Beans Overall Rating: (4.7 Stars):
3 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 50-50
Description: Bush green bean. Stringless, 6-inch pods. Heirloom.
Purple Queen Beans Overall Rating: (4.7 Stars):
3 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 52-52
Description: Bush purple bean. Purple pods turn green when cooked.
Masai Beans Overall Rating: (4.6 Stars):
10 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 47-47
Description: Bush green bean with 12-inch plants bearing 4-inch pods. Good for containers. Resistant to bacterial brown spot, common bean mosaic and curly top virus.
Pole Romano Beans Overall Rating: (4.6 Stars):
7 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 60-70
Description: Pole Italian-type green/Romano bean with medium-green, stringless, flat pods. Also known as 'Romano Snap Pole'.
Rattlesnake Beans Overall Rating: (4.5 Stars):
11 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 65-85
Description: Pole green bean bearing 7- to 10-inch, dark-green pods with purple streaks and tan beans with dark stripes. Excellent for freezing. Drought tolerant. Not well-adapted for northern climates.
Bush Blue Lake 274 Beans Overall Rating: (4.5 Stars):
6 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 53-58
Description: Bush green bean. Dwarf, 18-inch plants bear 6-inch, dark-green, straight, round pods with small, white seeds. Resistant to bean mosaic virus (BV-1) and NY-15 mosaic.
Tendergreen Improved Beans Overall Rating: (4.5 Stars):
4 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 53-53
Description: Bush green bean with round, 6-inch pods. Good for freezing. Resistant to common bean mosaic.
Windsor Beans Overall Rating: (4.5 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 75-75
Description: Bush fava (broad) bean. English variety with 5- to 6-inch pods with 3 to 5 1-inch, green shell beans that dry to light brown. Suitable for spring and fall sowing but does not thrive in hot weather.
Cherokee Beans Overall Rating: (4.5 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 48-60
Description: Bush yellow (wax) bean with upright plants bearing 6-inch, oval, light-yellow, stringless pods. All American Selection.
Christmas Beans Overall Rating: (4.5 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 80-80
Description: Pole lima bean. 7- to 9-foot vines bear 6-inch pods with 3 large, buttery-flavored, light-cream seeds with bright red stripes. Also known as 'Large Speckled', 'Giant Butter', 'Florida Speckled', 'Speckled Calico' or 'Giant Calico'.
Nugget Beans Overall Rating: (4.5 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 52-53
Description: Bush yellow (wax) bean with straight, round, 5 3/4-inch, deep-yellow pods with buttery flavor and white beans Resistant to common bean mosaic.
Pencil Pod Beans Overall Rating: (4.5 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 52-53
Description: Bush yellow (wax) with 5- to 6-inch, straight, round, stringless pods with black beans. Disease resistance.
Kwintus Beans Overall Rating: (4.5 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 60-80
Description: Early pole bean with long, flat, green pods that stay tender and flavorful even when large.
Spanish Musica Beans Overall Rating: (4.5 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 62-62
Description: Pole green bean. Vines bear broad, flat, 7- to 9-inch pods with slightly scalloped edges.
Black Seeded Blue Lake Beans Overall Rating: (4.5 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 55-63
Description: Pole green bean. 6- to 8-foot vines bear straight, stringless pods.
Knuckle Purple Hull Beans Overall Rating: (4.5 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 60-65
Description: Brown crowder type cowpea. Also known as 'Knuckle Hull'.
Goose Beans Overall Rating: (4.5 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 80-80
Description: Bush snap/shell bean.
Roma II Beans Overall Rating: (4.4 Stars):
7 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 53-54
Description: Bush, Italian-type, green/Romano bean with 15- to 18-inch plants bearing 4 1/2- to 6-inch, stringless, flat, medium-green pods with white beans. Heavy cropping for several weeks. Use for snap or green shelling. Freezes well. Resistant to bean mosaic virus, common bean mosaic, northern leaf blight (race 15), papaya ring spot and rust.
Black Valentine Beans Overall Rating: (4.4 Stars):
5 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 52-100
Description: Bush green or dry bean. Green, 6-inch pods with tendency to curve and black kidney-shaped beans. Some drought resistance. 52 to 70 days for snap harvest, 100 days for dry beans. Also known as 'Henderson's Black Valentine'.
Derby Beans Overall Rating: (4.3 Stars):
3 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 55-57
Description: Bush green bean with 18-inch plants bearing medium-dark green, 7-inch, straight beans containing very little fiber and white seeds. Resistant to bean mosaic virus (BV-1), common bean mosaic and powdery mildew. All American Selection.
Jacob's Cattle Beans Overall Rating: (4.3 Stars):
3 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 83-83
Description: Heirloom bush dry bean. 24-inch plants bear white, kidney-shaped beans speckled with maroon. Also used for fresh shell beans. Alson known as Trout Bean, Coach Dog Bean, Dalmatian Bean and Anasazi Bean.
Blue Lake Pole Beans Overall Rating: (4.3 Stars):
3 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 55-65
Description: Pole green bean. 5 1/2-foot vines bear stringless, 6- to 7-inch, dark-green pods. Pick fresh or allow to mature as a dry bean. Resistant to bean mosaic virus (race 1) and common bean mosaic.
Provider Beans Overall Rating: (4.3 Stars):
16 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 50-50
Description: Bush green bean with 18-inch plants bearing 5 1/2- to 6-inch smooth, round, green pods with purple beans. Freezes well. Strong rooted. Resistant to bean mosaic virus (race 15), common bean mosaic, downy mildew and powdery mildew.
Contender Beans Overall Rating: (4.2 Stars):
8 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush green bean with 6-inch, round stringless pods with distinctive strong flavor. Resistent to common bean mosaic and powdery mildew
King of the Garden Beans Overall Rating: (4.2 Stars):
4 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 85-88
Description: Pole lima bean with 8- to 10-foot vines bearing 4- to 8-inch, dark-green pods with 4 to 6, large, white, easy-to-shell beans.
Maxibel Beans Overall Rating: (4.2 Stars):
4 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 50-61
Description: Bush green/French filet beans with round, slender, stringless 6- to 8-inch by 1/4-inch, dark-green pods with brown, mottled beans. Resistant to anthracnose and common bean mosaic.
Nickel Beans Overall Rating: (4.2 Stars):
4 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 52-59
Description: Bush green/French filet bean with 4 1/2-inch, stringless, dark-green pods with slowly developing white beans. Resistant to anthracnose, bacterial brown spot and common bean mosaic.
White Half Runner Beans Overall Rating: (4.2 Stars):
4 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Bush dry bean with runners bearing stringless, 4 1/2-inch pods. Not recommended for northern climates. Thrives in heat and little water.
Roc D'or Beans Overall Rating: (4.2 Stars):
4 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 55-60
Description: Early, round-podded, yellow snap bean.
True Red Cranberry Beans Overall Rating: (4.2 Stars):
5 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 60-95
Description: Pole green snap or dry/shell bean. 6-foot vines bear slender, green, stringless 7- to 9-inch nearly round pods with round, reddish seeds. Harvest shell beans at 80 days or dry beans at full maturity.
Purple Podded Pole Beans Overall Rating: (4.2 Stars):
5 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 65-75
Description: Purple-podded, heirloom, pole bean. Purple-tinged, 6-foot vines bear deep-wine-red, stringless, 5- to 7-inch by 1/2-inch pods.
Kentucky Blue Beans Overall Rating: (4.2 Stars):
6 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 57-65
Description: Pole green bean, cross of Kentucky Wonder and Blue Lake. 6- to 8-foot vines bear round, straight, stringless, 6-to 7-inch pods with white beans. Resistant to rust. 1991 All American Selection.
Dragon Tongue Beans Overall Rating: (4.1 Stars):
7 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 50-65
Description: Bush yellow (wax) bean use snap or shelled. Dutch strain with stringless, flat, 5- to 8-inch, greenish-yellow pods with purple tiger stripes that turn green when cooked. Seeds are purple-blue with blue stripes. Also known as 'Dragon Langerie', 'Merveille de Piemonte', 'Meraviglia del Piemonte' and 'Dragon's Tongue'.
Kentucky Blue Wonder Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
4 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 58-68
Description: Heirloom pole green bean. Plants bear clustered, oval, gently curving, 7- to 9-inch pods. Stringless when young. Light brown beans can be used for shelling. Also known as Old Homestead Brown Seeded Pole bean.
Black Coco Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
3 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Bush dry bean with shiny, oval, black beans. Good for snap when young but pods are stringy and tough when mature.
Burpee's Tenderpod Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
3 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 50-50
Description: Bush green bean with stringless, round, dark-green pods. All American Selection.
Envy Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
3 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 75-75
Description: Edamame-type soybean with bright-green pods on 2-foot plants. Can be used for shelling or dry beans.
Garden of Eden Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
3 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 65-65
Description: Pole green bean with 6-inch, broad, flat pods. Seeds are brown with dark-brown stripes. European heirloom.
Northeaster Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
3 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 55-56
Description: Dutch pole green bean with flat, stringless, 8- by 3/4-inch pods with white beans.
Top Crop Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
3 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 52-52
Description: Bush green bean with 15- to 18-inch plants with 6- to 7-inch, straight, round, fiberless, medium-green pods. Also known as 'Topcrop'.
California Blackeye No. 5 Cowpea Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
3 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 75-75
Description: Cowpea used fresh or dried. Vines bear 8-inch pods well-filled with large seeds. Resistant to wilt and nematodes. Also known as 'California Blackeye Pea'.
Beer Friend Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 70-87
Description: Edamame (edible soybean). Short, 2 1/2- to 3-foot plants with dark-green leaves bear dark-green, pubescent pods containing 2 to 3 beans. Likes cool climate.
Bush Kentucky Wonder 125 Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 57-57
Description: Bush green bean with medium-green, flattened, 4- to 6-inch pods with white seeds. Resistant to common bean mosaic and northern leaf blight (Race #15).
Florida Speckled Butter Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 85-86
Description: Pole lima bean with light-brown beans splashed with maroon. Plants withstand heat and humid weather. Also known as Speckled Butter Bean.
Jackson Wonder Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 103-103
Description: Bush lima bean with 18-inch plants bearing curved pods that are gray at shell stage then dry to buff with purple and black mottling. 3 beans per pod. 18 inch plant is drought tolerant. Baby pods can be cooked like snow peas.
Rocdor Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 50-53
Description: Bush yellow (wax) bean with slow-developing, 6- to 6 3/4-inch, straight, round, deep-yellow pods with dark beans. Resistant to anthracnose, bean mosaic virus and common bean mosaic. Dark seeds germinate well in cool soil. Also known as \'Roc d\'Or\'.
Soldier Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 85-95
Description: Heirloom bush dry bean with 18-inch plants bearing pods with 6, kidney-shaped, medium-sized, white beans with maroon soldier eye in each pod. Drought resistant. Also known as Old Fashioned.
Tenderette Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 58-58
Description: Bush green bean with straight, smooth, 5-inch pods with white beans. Resistant to common bean mosaic and northern leaf blight (race 15). Improved Tendercrop type.
Butterbeans Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Stocky 2- to 2 1/2-foot plants bear pods with 3 seeds.
Baby Fordhook Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 70-70
Description: Bush lima bean bearing 2 3/4-inch pods with 3 to 4 small beans each.
California Red Kidney Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 100-100
Description: Bush dry bean with large, light-red, kidney-shaped beans.
Calypso Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Bush dry bean with 15-inch plants bearing pods with 4 to 5, large, oval white beans with black markings per pod. High disease resistance.
Cannellini Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 80-100
Description: Bush, Italian-style, heirloom dry bean. 2- to 4-foot plants bear 5 1/2-inch, yellowish-green pods containing white, kidney-shaped beans Performs well in cool weather. Harvest fresh for shelling around 80 days, for dry beans at 100 days. Also known as 'White Kidney Bean', 'Cannellino', and 'Cannellini Soup Half-Runner'. 'Runner Cannellini' (Seed Savers Exchange) is similar but with larger seeds.
Daytona Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush green bean with 6- to 7-inch, medium-dark green, straight, round pods. Good in hot weather. Resistant to bean mosaic virus (BV-1)
Dixie White Butter Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 70-70
Description: Bush lima bean with medium-sized pods and round, white, butterbeans. Drought tolerant.
Dutch Brown Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 83-83
Description: Heirloom bush dry bean. 15- to 20-inch plants with caramel-colored, nutty-flavored beans. Heavy yielder.
Early Bush Italian Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 50-50
Description: Bush green bean with flat, stringless, 5 1/2-inch pods.
Espada Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 56-56
Description: Bush green bean with slender, 6-inch, dark-green pods and white seeds. Resistant to anthracnose, angular leaf spot, bacterial brown spot, bean mosaic virus (race 15), common bean mosaic, halo blight and powdery mildew.
Golden Rod Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 53-60
Description: Bush yellow (wax) bean with 4 1/2- to 6-inch, stringless pods with slowly developing seeds. Suited to northern climates. Good for freezing and canning. Resistant to common bean mosaic.
Great Northern Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Bush dry bean with semi-vining plants bearing large, white beans. Excellent baking bean. Grown widely in northern tier states.
Helda Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 58-58
Description: Pole Romano bean with 9-inch pods. Long harvest season. Resistant to common bean mosaic.
Henderson's Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 65-68
Description: Bush lima bean bearing 3-inch pods with 3 or 4 small butterbeans. Harvest dried or shelled. Long harvest season. Also known as 'Original Dwarf' or 'Henderson Bush Lima'.
King of the Early Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Bush dry bean with mottled, red beans.
Lowe's Champion Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 65-65
Description: Heirloom bush dry bean. 18- to 24-inch plants bear long, flat, pods containing 6 beans. Suited for both hot and cold climates.
Marfax Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 86-86
Description: Bush dry beans for baking. Adaptable to cool weather.
Speculator Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush green bean with 5 3/4-inch, oval, tender, green pods. Resistant to bean mosaic virus.
Steuben Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Bush dry bean with 18-inch plants bearing pods with medium-sized, white beans with large yellow eye. Disease resistant. Also known as Dot Eye, Molasses Face and Yellow-Eyed China.
Tema Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush green bean with 5 1/4-inch, stringless, round medium-green pods with brown beans. Germinates in cold soil. Resistant to bean mosaic virus (race 1) and common bean mosaic.
Tongues of Fire Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 62-75
Description: Bush Italian horticultural-type bean with large, round, red-streaked, 6- to 7-inch, ivory pods and round, buff beans. Harvest for snap beans when 5 inches or dry at full maturity. Also known as Horto and Tongue of Fire.
Super Marconi Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Romano-type green pole bean. Vines bear broad, flat, stringless beans that stay tender up to 10 to 11 inches long. Also known as 'Supermarconi'.
Green Anellino Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Heirloom, Italian, pole bean. Small, crescent shaped beans with rich Romano flavor. Also known as 'Green Annelino'.
Brockton Horticultural Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Pole dry bean. Plants bear red striped pods and brown-speckled, tan seeds.
Tendergreen Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 45-57
Description: Bush green bean. Plants bear round, dark-green, stringless, 6-inch pods and brownish-purple seeds.
Taylor's Dwarf Horticultural Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 60-80
Description: Heirloom bush dry, shelling or snap bean. Semi-running plants bear thick, flat, 5-inch pods with large, oval seeds, both buff splashed with red. Also known as 'Improved Pinto' and 'Shelley Bean'.
d'Aquadulce a Tres Longue Cosse Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 75-75
Description: Fava (broad) bean. 8-foot plants bear black and white flowers and nutty-flavored seeds.
Genuine Cornfield Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 70-90
Description: Heirloom pole snap bean. 5- to 6-foot vines bear 5- to 7-inch pods.
Taiwan Black Long Bean Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Asian pole long bean. Vines bear light-green 38-inch pods black beans.
Giant Stringless Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 56-56
Description: Bush green bean. Plants bear round, 6-inch, stringless pods.
Vanguard Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Bush French green bean. Plants bear 6-inch, round, white-seeded, stringless pods.
Anellino Verde Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Italian pole green bean.
Lamon Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 75-80
Description: Italian pole borlotto type for fresh-cooked shell beans. Vines bear rose-mottled creamy white beans.
Eureka Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush yellow (wax) bean. 12- to 15-inch plants bear straight, 5- to 6-inch, bright yellow fruit. Resistant to common bean mosaic.
Yellow Wax Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 60-65
Description: Yellow (wax) bush bean. Plants bear yellow, stringless, 5- to 6-inch pods with black seeds. Disease resistant.
Vermont Cranberry Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Semi-bush dry bean heirloom from New England. Plants bear pods with cranberry-red seeds.
Greensleeves Beans Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Open-pollinated, bush snap green bean. Plants bear extremely dark green, round pods with white seeds.
Fortex Beans Overall Rating: (3.9 Stars):
19 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Pole green/French filet bean with round, stringless, 7- to 11-inch dark-green pods stay tender after walnut-brown beans enlarge. Resistant to anthracnose and common bean mosaic.
Kentucky Wonder Beans Overall Rating: (3.9 Stars):
7 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 65-65
Description: Heirloom pole green bean. Vines bear 9-inch oval, thick, curved, green pods that are stringless when young. Widely adapted. Can be harvested for dry/shell beans. Also known as 'Old Homestead'.
Trionfo Violetto Beans Overall Rating: (3.8 Stars):
5 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 60-72
Description: Purple pole bean. Southern European variety with 7-inch, slender, oval-rounded pods with brown beans. Pods turn green when cooked. Also known as 'Trionfo' and 'Purple Trionfo Violetto'.
Gold Marie Beans Overall Rating: (3.7 Stars):
3 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 55-60
Description: Pole yellow (wax) bean. 6- to 8-foot vines bear 6- to 7-inch flattened, bright golden yellow pods that maintain quality even when large.
McCaslan Beans Overall Rating: (3.5 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 65-65
Description: Heirloom pole green bean with 8-inch, round, stringless pods. Also good for shell beans.
Missouri Wonder Beans Overall Rating: (3.5 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Heirloom pole dry bean. Vines bear pinto like beans.
Royal Purple Burgundy Beans Overall Rating: (3.5 Stars):
11 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 51-55
Description: Bush purple bean with 5- to 6-inch purple pods that turn bright-green when cooked. Erect plants have dark-green foliage with a tinge of purple on stems and petioles. Plants do well in cool soil. Resistant to common bean mosaic. Also known as 'Royal Burgundy', 'Royalty Purple Pod' and 'Royalty Purple Podded'.
Hutterite Beans Overall Rating: (3.3 Stars):
3 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 88-88
Description: Bush dry/shell bean with 2- to 3-foot plants bearing plump, greenish-tan beans with charcoal ring around hilum.
Bountiful Beans Overall Rating: (3.2 Stars):
4 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 46-47
Description: Bush green bean. 6- to 7-inch flat pods. Resistant to mildew and rust.
Fordhook 242 Beans Overall Rating: (3.2 Stars):
4 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 65-85
Description: Dwarf bush lima bean with clustered, 3 1/2- to 4-inch pods with 3 to 4 white beans per pod. Outstanding for freezing. All American Selection.
Scarlet Runner Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
13 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 65-115
Description: Heirloom ornamental runner bean with 8- to 12-foot vines bearing edible, red blossoms and 12- to 16-inch, flat pods with mottled purple and black seeds. Can be used for snap, shell or dry. Young snap beans in 70 days and dry beans in 115 days.
Adzuki Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: 2-foot, bushy plants with long, narrow pods with 7 to 10 small, dark-red beans harvested for dry beans. Can be also harvested for snap beans in 60 days. Also known as 'Azuki' and 'Red Bean'.
Indy Gold Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 52-56
Description: Bush yellow (wax) bean with 5- to 6-inch, green-tipped pods with white beans. Freezes well. Resistant to bacterial brown spot and common bean mosaic.
Broad Windsor Long Pod Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 65-85
Description: Bush fava (broad) bean. 24-inch, upright plants with 7- to 8-inch, glossy, lime-green, oblong pods containing 5 to 7 greenish-white beans. Harvest for snap at 2 to 3 inches, larger for dry or shell. Plant early as soon as soil can be worked. Leaves are edible. Freezes well.
Bumble Bee Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 98-98
Description: Bush dry bean. Large, white seeds with black spots. Heirloom.
Bush Romano Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 54-54
Description: Bush green bean with 6-inch pods on compact plant. Romano-flavored.
Mung Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Bush dry bean from India bearing small pods with 7 to 9 beans. Grows very well in warm climate.
Pinto Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Half-runner bush dry bean with medium-sized thin-skinned, light-buff beans with brown speckles.
Swedish Brown Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Semi-vining bush dry bean bearing brown seeds with small, white eye. Best used as dry baking bean.
Winged Bean Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 65-75
Description: Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, also known as asparagus pea, winged pea, asparagus bean. Spreading, low-growing or climbing tropical plant with bright red blossoms. Harvest winged pods while still immature (1 to 4 inches) before they become tough and stringy. Use like snap beans. Flowers, leaves and tubers are also edible.
Gita Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 78-78
Description: Pole green bean. Day-neutral subtropical Asian vines bear 16- to 20-inch, dark green, pencil-thick, stringless pods. Black seeds.
Indian Woman Yellow Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Bush dry bean. 20- to 24-inch plants bear yellow seeds. Early maturing.
Arikara Yellow Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 80-90
Description: Bush dry bean originally from the Arikara tribe of North Dakota. Plants bear yellow-tan seeds. Good drought tolerance.
Charlevoix Dark Red Kidney Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 80-90
Description: Bush dry bean. Plants bear dark red seeds.
Golden Lima Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 85-90
Description: Pole lima/dry bean. Similar in appearance to limas, but actually a dry bean. Plants bear flattened, golden seeds with darker striping.
Commodore Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 65-65
Description: Bush green bean. Plants bear stingless, dark green, 8-inch pods. 1938 All American Selection.
Kentucky Dreamer Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush green bean. Plants bear 6-inch, slightly flattened pods.
Black Pearl Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Black-seeded edamame soybean. 2 1/2– to 3-foot plants bear 1/4-inch, black, pearl-sized seeds.
La Victoire. Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 50-55
Description: Bush French type. Plants bear dark-green, 6- to 7-inch, stringless, black-seeded pods best picked while still thinner than a pencil.
Gion Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 72-72
Description: Edamame (edible soybean). Plants produce large, dark-green, usually 3-seeded pods with white pubescence.
Tiger Eye Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 65-90
Description: Heirloom bush green/dry bean from Chile or Argentina. 2-foot plants bear wide, 4-inch pods filled with large, flattened kidney-shaped, bright golden ochre beans with maroon swirls. 65 days fresh harvest, 85 to 90 dry. Also known as 'Tiger’s Eye'.
Purple Koronis Beans Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 80-85
Description: Bush dry bean. Tall plants bear 6 1/4-inch pods with bright purple seeds. Also known as 'Koronis Purple'.
Heavyweight II Beans Overall Rating: (2.5 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 53-53
Description: Bush green bean with stocky 18-inch plants bearing 8-inch pods.
Lazy Housewife Beans Overall Rating: (2.5 Stars):
2 Ratings 		Days to Maturity: 75-80
Description: Heirloom pole green bean. Vines bear stringless pods.
Ram's Horn Beans Overall Rating: (2.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Pole green/dry bean. Plants with dark-green foliage bear green pods and beige beans with a black swirl that resembles a ram's horn.
Marvel of Venice Beans Overall Rating: (1.0 Stars):
1 Rating 		Days to Maturity: 54-54
Description: Italian heirloom, pole yellow bean bearing 8- to 9-inch by 3/4-inch pods with white beans.
Agate Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 92-92
Description: Bush pinto/dry bean type. Mostly runnerless plants bear medium-sized, mottled bean beans with rich spicy flavor.
Ambra Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 52-52
Description: Bush green bean with 6-inch, medium-green, smooth pods. Resistant to bean mosaic virus, common bean mosaic and curly top.
Apricot Runner Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-100
Description: Primarily an ornamental like scarlet runner beans. Rambling vines with bright-apricot flowers followed by slender pods.
Aunt Jean's Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Pole dry bean with round, shiny, white beans with maroon eye, creamy texture and sweet, nutty flavor.
Baby Bop Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 51-51
Description: Bush green bean with 4-inch, medium-green pods that hold color well when cooked.
Benchmark Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 54-54
Description: Bush green bean with medium-green, 6-inch, round pods. Good for freezing. Resistant to bean mosaic virus and curly top virus. All American Selection.
Besweet 2020 Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 87-87
Description: Bush soybean. Upright, 30-inch plants bear medium-sized pods with 2 to 3 beans each. Green pods for fresh eating and yellow pods at 87 days for dried beans. Best planted in late spring.
Black Eye Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Bush cow pea. 6- to 7-inch pods with smooth seeds for snap or dry. Resistant to common wilt and nematodes.
Black Kabouli Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 115-115
Description: Bush garbanzo bean, originally from Afghanistan. 2-foot plants bear pods with two black, medium-sized beans. Ornamental purple flowers. Cool-weather crop. Also known as 'Garbanzo Black Kabouli'.
Black Turtle Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-104
Description: Bush dry bean. Heavy-yielding, dwarf plants bear pods with 7 to 8 black, rich, spicy beans per pod. Pick early for snap beans. Not for extreme northern growing. Also known as 'Black Turtle Soup'.
Blue Lake Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 55-60
Description: Bush green bean. 15- to 18-inch bushes bear meaty, stringless, straight, 6- to 7-inch pods containing white beans.
Broad Improved Long Pod Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Bush fava (broad) bean. Hardy, upright plants bear 7-inch pods containing 5 to 6 flat, oblong beans for green shelled or dried. Must be planted early in the spring.
Burpee Bush Lima Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 70-75
Description: Bush lima bean. Clusters of 5 to 6 pods containing 4 to 5 large, flat, oval, easy-to-shell beans.
Burpee's Best Pole Lima Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 92-92
Description: Pole lima bean. 12 foot vines produce pods with 3 to 5 beans per pod.
Bush Blue Lake 274 Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 57-58
Description: Bush green bean (developed from vining Blue Lake) with 6-inch pods. Resistant to bean mosaic virus (Race #15) and common bean mosaic.
Bush Blue Lake 47 Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 58-58
Description: Bush green bean with medium-thick, 6 1/2-inch, virtually fiber-free pods.
Butterbaby Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 75-75
Description: Shiratori type bush soybean. Produces well in short-growing seasons. Pods have 2 beans each.
Charon Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush green bean with dark-green, straight, 6- to 7-inch stringless pods. Resistant to bacterial brown spot, common bean mosaic, curly top virus, halo blight and northern leaf blight (race 8).
China Yellow Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 90-95
Description: Heirloom bush dry bean with small, plump, pale-yellow seeds. Also known as Sulphur Bean.
Coco Rubico Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Bush green bean with 5- to 6-inch flat, cream-colored color pods with bright rosy spots. Can also be used shelled or dried.
Con Amore Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 70-70
Description: Bush fava (broad) bean with dwarf plants bearing 8- to 9-inch, clustered pods containing oval beans.
Dusky Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 52-52
Description: Bush green bean with 6-inch, round, smooth, dark-green pods with white seeds. Resistant to bacterial brown spot, bean mosaic virus (race 15), common bean mosaic, halo blight and northern leaf blight (race 8).
Eastern Butterwax Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 53-53
Description: Bush yellow (wax) beazn with 4-to 5-inch, clustered, easy-to-pick pods.
Eastland Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 70-70
Description: Bush lima bean with flat, 3-inch pods with white beans. Heavy yielder. Good cold-soil tolerance. Resistant to downy mildew.
E-Z Pick Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush green bean with sturdy, upright, plants bearing 5 1/2- to 6-inch, dark-green, easy-to-pick pods. Resistant to bean mosaic virus.
E-Z Gold Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 54-54
Description: Bush yellow (wax) bean with 18-inch plants bearing 5 1/2-inch, fleshy, yellow, blemish-free pods.
Festina Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 56-56
Description: Bush green bean with erect plants bearing dark-green, straight pods. Resistant to common bean mosaic.
Flagrano Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 67-76
Description: Bush green/French flageolet-type shell bean with 8 to 10, mint-green, easy-to-shell beans. Best eaten as green shell bean but also used as dried beans. Resistant to anthracnose, halo blight and bean mosaic virus.
Fordhook Standard Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 57-57
Description: Bush green/French filet bean. Small-leaved plants make pods easy to see.
French Horticultural Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 64-75
Description: Bush dry bean with 18-inch plants that may produce runners bearing 6- to 8-inch pods that turn bright red on yellow at maturity. Cream-colored beans striped with red can be eaten shelled or dried. Disease resistant.
Garbanzo Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 65-100
Description: Bush dry bean with erect plants bearing tan beans. Use as shell at 65 days or dry bean at 100 days. Not for extreme northern growing. Also known as chickpeas or Mediterranean chickpea.
Gina Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush green/Romano bean with 5- to 6-inch, thick, flat pods on upright plants with excellent disease resistance.
Gold Rush Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 53-54
Description: Bush yellow (wax) beans with 5 1/4-inch, straight, yellow pods with white beans clustered around main stem for easy picking. Long harvest season. Freezes well. Resistant to bacterial brown spot and bean mosaic virus.
Goldito Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 52-54
Description: Bush yellow (wax)/French filet bean with Semi-upright plants bearing straight, stringless, 4 1/2- to 5-inch, yellow pods with buttery, wax-bean flavor and white beans. Resistant to common bean mosaic.
Green Pearls Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 65-65
Description: Soybean with short plants bearing fuzzy golden pods with three seeds per pod.
Greencrop (Asgrow Strain) Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush green/Romano bean with flat, wide, stringless, 8-inch pods with white beans. Strain of Greencrop.
Grenoble Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 52-55
Description: Bush green bean with straight, round to oval, dark-green, slow developing 5 1/2-inch pods with white beans. Resistant to common bean mosaic, anthracnose and halo blight.
Kenearly Yellow Eye Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Bush dry bean. Similar to Maine Yellow Eye with oval, medium-sized cream-colored beans with yellow "eye."
Kentucky Wonder Wax Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 61-65
Description: Pole yellow (wax) bean with 6- to 8- inch pods for snap or later for brown dry shell beans.
La France Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 56-56
Description: Bush green/French filet bean. Green pods retain tenderness when mature.
Limelight Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-85
Description: Bush dry/shell bean bearing light-green to white beans similar to but sweeter than limas. Shell at 60 days, dry at 85 days.
Lodi Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 57-57
Description: Bush green bean with 5 1/2-inch pods with white beans. Performs well under adverse growing conditions.
Magnum Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 52-52
Description: Bush green bean with 6- to 7-inch, straight, flat pods. Resistant to bean mosaic virus.
Maine Sunset Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Bush dry/shell soldier-type bean with ivory beans irregularly splotched with brown-maroonish and blood-orange.
Maine Yellow Eye Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 92-92
Description: Bush dry bean with oval, medium-sized, cream-colored beans with yellow eye. Also known as 'Yellow Eye'.
Malibu Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Pole green bean with straight, 7-inch, green pods. Resistant to bean mosaic virus (race 1), curly top virus and halo blight.
Marrow Fat Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-100
Description: Heirloom. Half-runner bush dry bean bears 5 to 6, large, egg-shaped, navy beans in inedible, flat pod.
Matador Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 56-60
Description: Bush green bean with 5 1/2- to 6-inch, straight, round, dark-green pods with white beans. Freeze and can well. Resistant to common bean mosaic.
Midnight Black Turtle Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 104-104
Description: Bush dry bean with small black beans.
Mitla Black Tepary Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Dry bush bean with delicate pods bearing 5 or 6, small, lustrous, black beans. Able to withstand high temperatures.
Mississippi Silver Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 64-64
Description: Bush cowpea for shelling. At maturity, large pods are silvery, touched occasionally with rose streaks. Large, light-green to cream peas are flattened on the ends.
Money Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 95-95
Description: Heirloom bush dry bean with upright plants bearing pods containing 5 or 6, kidney-shaped, white beans with brick-red speckles.
Monos Negros Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Bush dry/shell bean from Salvador bears black beans. Not as richly flavored as Black Turtle beans.
Navy Pea Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Semi-vining bush dry bean with pure-white, oval beans. Excellent for baking.
Neopolitan Pole Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Pole green/Romano bean with large, long, sweet pods.
Normandie Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 52-52
Description: Bush green bean with stringless, 4 1/2- to 5-inch pods with small white beans. Resistant to anthracnose, halo blight and one or more races of bean mosaic.
Painted Lady Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-100
Description: Heirloom runner bean. 9- to 12-inch pods with mottled, buff beans for shell or dry. Bicolored red and white blossoms.
Peregion Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 95-95
Description: Heirloom bush dry bean. Sprawling plants bear small chocolate-colored beans with contrasting stripes or marbling. Disease resistant.
Ramdor Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 45-50
Description: Pole yellow (wax) bean with straight, clustered, 7-inch, yellow pods.
Red Kidney Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-102
Description: Bush dry bean. Light-red kidney for baking.
Red Mexican Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Heirloom bush dry bean with 14-inch plants bearing medium-green pods with red beans.
Romano 942 Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 57-57
Description: Bush green/Romano bean with 6- to 6 1/2-inch, flat, green pods and green beans. Resistant to bean mosaic virus (BV-1) and NY15 mosaic and stains of bean common mosaic.
Romano Gold Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 55-60
Description: Dwarf, bush yellow (wax)Romano bean with 4- to 5 1/2-inch by 3/8-inch, light butter-yellow pods with white beans. Resistant to bean mosaic virus, rust and white mold.
Scarlet Beauty Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 70-90
Description: Bush dry/shell bean with sprawling plants bearing large, red beans with some beige striping. For shelling in 70 days and dry bean in 90 days.
Sequoia Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 53-53
Description: Bush Italian-type purple bean with 5- to 5 1/2-inch, stringless pods that turn bright-green when cooked. Tolerates cool weather.
Shade Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 56-56
Description: Bush green bean with slender, round, straight, 5 1/2-inch, dark-green pods with white beans. Heavy yielding. Resistant to common bean mosaic and curly top virus. Heat tolerant.
Shirofumi Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Tall edible soybean with light-green pods containing 2 beans each. Resistant to anthracnose and common bean mosaic.
Shironomai Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 75-75
Description: Japanese-type edible soybean with large, greenish-white, pubescent pods containing tan seeds.
Slenderette Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 53-53
Description: Bush green bean with 5-inch, smooth, glossy, dark-green, stringless pods. Resistant to northern leaf blight (race 15). Also known as \'Classic Slenderette\'.
Slenderwax Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 56-56
Description: Bush yellow (wax) bean with 5 1/2-inch, deep-yellow pods with white beans. Resistant to bean mosaic virus (race 15), common bean mosaic and sclerotinia.
Soliel Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 54-54
Description: Bush yellow (wax)/French filet bean with 4- to 5-inch, extra-slender, round, straight, stringless, buttery-yellow pods.
Stallion Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 53-53
Description: Bush green bean with 5 1/2-inch, medium-dark green, slender, round, pods with brown beans. Resistant to common bean mosaic and halo blight.
Strike Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 53-54
Description: Bush green bean with 5- to 5 1/2-inch, round, slender, medium-green pods and white beans. Resistant to bean mosaic virus (race 15) and common bean mosaic.
Sunset Runner Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Runner bean with salmon-pink flowers and short pods. Harvest throughout the season.
Teggia Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 68-68
Description: Bush dry bean with 7-inch, red and yellow pods when mature and buff-red seeds. Resistant to bean mosaic virus and rust.
Tenderlake Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 53-55
Description: Bush green bean with straight 5- to 6-inch, medium-dark green pods with white beans that are slow to mature. Resistant to one or more races of common bean mosaic.
Tenderpick Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 54-54
Description: Bush green bean with straight, 5 1/2-inch, dark-green pods with curved tips.
Topaz Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 92-92
Description: Bush dry bean. Mottled pinto type used for Mexican cooking.
Triumph De Farcy Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 48-48
Description: Bush French filet bean with 3- to 6-inch, slender pods. Also known as 'Triumphe de Farcy'.
Unidor Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 54-58
Description: Bush yellow (wax) bean with 5 1/2-inch, round, yellow pods with white beans. Everbearing-type with slow seed development. Freezes well. Resistant to common bean mosaic, anthracnose and halo blight.
Vermont Appaloosa Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 80-80
Description: Bush dry bean with 18- to 24-inch, short-runner plants bearing 5- by 1/2-inch, flat, green pods with 4 to 6 kidney-shaped, purple and white mottled beans. Can be used as snap beans when young.
Vinton Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 82-82
Description: Edible soybean used fresh shelled or mature for tofu. 36-inch plants with yellow bean.
White Marrow Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-100
Description: Bush dry bean with 5-inch, flat, straight pods containing 5 or 6 large, white beans.
Yard Long Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Asparagus pole bean with 4-foot vines bearing 2-foot, green pods with red beans. Best picked at 1 foot.
Yellow Rod Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 53-53
Description: Bush yellow (wax) bean with 5- to 6-inch pods. Seeds develop slowly. Resistant to common bean mosaic.
Yin Yang Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-100
Description: Bush dry bean with 15- to 18-inch plants bearing white beans with black spots. Color disappears when cooked.
Caruso Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: French Haricot Vert type with round, slender, 8-inch, green pods on vigorous erect plants. Stays stringless longer than older filet type beans. Resistant to mosaic and anthracnose.
Fin des Bagnols Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Heirloom French filet bean with fine, green pods and remarkable earliness, and intense flavor. Also known as 'Fin de Bagnol'.
Blauhilde Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: German pole bean with dark-blue, round to oval, 10- to 12-inches pods. Similar to Italian heirloom Trionfo Violetto. Disease resistant.
Emperor Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Red-flowered runner bean from England. Harvest pods at 4 to 6 inches long for best eating quality.
Anellino Mix Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Italian heirloom Romano-type pole bean. Small, crescent-shaped, green or yellow pods.
Borlotto (Bush) Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Bush Italian soup bean. 12- to 24-inch plants bear fat, flat, green pods splashed with red. Harvest for fresh use after the pods fill or later for dry beans.
Flageolet Chevrier Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: European flageolet type used fresh shelled or dried. Bushy, high-yielding plants.
Dorabel Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Yellow French filet/bush bean.
Hildora Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Bush yellow (wax) bean. Erect plants bear round, 6- to 8-inch pods held high for easy harvest. Disease tolerant.
Early Hakucho Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Early edible pod soybean. Heavy-yielding, dwarf, 1-foot plants.
Rolande Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 54-54
Description: French filet (haricot vert) type. Bush plants bear slim, round, pencil-sized, deep-green, 6-inch pods. Disease resistant
Tricolor Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 54-54
Description: Mix of green (Green Slenderette), yellow (Golden Roc d'Or) and purple (Purple Queen) varieties for a 'rainbow' harvest.
French Duet Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Mix of two pole bean varieties: Ramdor (yellow) and Emerite (green). Vines bear slim, round, 7- to 9-inch pods.
Tricolor Pole Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Mix of three pole beans: Blue Lake (green), Yellow Pole Wax (yellow) and Purple Peacock (purple).
Yellow Annellino Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Round-podded, yellow pole bean.
Cupidon Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 50-50
Description: Bush green French filet bean. Plants bear 6 1/2 to 7-inch, round, beans that stay stringless. Brown mottled seeds.
Foremost Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 53-53
Description: Bush green bean. Medium size, semi-upright plants bear straight 6-inch pods. Good heat tolerance. White seeds. Resistant to anthracnose and bean mosaic virus.
Xera Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 54-54
Description: Bush green bean. Plants bear 5 1/2- to 6-inch dark green, slender, straight, round pods. Widely adapted. White seeds. Resistant to bean mosaic virus and halo blight. Heat tolerant.
Italian Rose Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Italian pole bean used shelled in soups and pasta dishes. Vines bear multicolored pods that are harvested when 8- to 12-inches long and seeds fill out. Use fresh or allow pods to mature fully, then shell and dry beans for storage.
Mellow Yellow Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush yellow (wax) bean. Compact plants bear 6-inch, light golden yellow pods.
Burpee's Improved Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Bush lima bean. Plants bear clusters of 5 or 6 5 1/2-inch, slightly curved, easy-to-shell pods each containing 4 or 5 large, flat, oval beans.
Filet Bush Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 56-56
Description: Bush French filet bean. Plants bear thin (3/8-inch), straight, 5- to 7-inch long dark green pods streaked with purple.
Golden Rocky Wax Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Bush wax bean. Plants yield slender, yellow, stringless, 6-inch pods. Good cool-soil germination and long harvest season. Also known as 'Beurre de Rocquencort'.
Mrociumere Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-100
Description: Bush dry bean. Plants bear purple beans. Despite Kenya origin, grows well in short cool growing seasons.
Urd Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 90-100
Description: Sprouting bean. 15- to 20-inch plants similar to mung beans (but mature earlier) bear small, net-patterned, gray seeds. Bean beetle- and drought-resistant.
Sweet Loraine Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Medium-sized fava bean survives winter temperatures down to 10³F. Fall plantings grow up to 6 feet tall. Used primarily for cover crop.
Sonoran Gold Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-90
Description: Bush tepary dry bean. Plants bear golden beans with more than 30-percent crude protein. Drought-tolerant, Southwest origin, developed by the Papago tribe.
Pawnee Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 90-100
Description: Bush dry bean. 16- to 20-inch plants bear deeply marked, brown-on-beige seeds similar to 'Jacob's Cattle'.
Paint Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 70-90
Description: Short-season, bush, dry bean. 16- to 20-inch plants bear beans similar to 'Yellow Eye' with three distinct patterns.
Mothe Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 95-95
Description: Sprouting bean. Sprawling, mat-forming, 15- to 24-inch plants bear smooth, 2- to 3-inch pods each with 5 to 9 seeds. Thrive in hot weather. Young, tender pods are eaten in India as a vegetable while the dry beans are prepared like lentils. Also known as Moth, Mat, or Mother Bean.
Blue Speckled Tepary Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-90
Description: Bush tepary bean. 2- to 3-foot plants bear plump, medium-sized, brown seeds. Drought tolerant and adaptable to intense heat and dry conditions.
Cascade Giant Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 58-58
Description: Pole green bean. 6- to 8-foot vines bear green pods with reddish mottling.
Dow Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 75-80
Description: Purple-podded, heirloom, pole bean. 6- to 8-foot vines bear dark purple, flat beans. Long harvest season. Emerges well from cool, wet soils. Illinois origin.
Golden Lumen Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 55-60
Description: Bush wax bean. 18- to 22-inch plants bear cylindrical, straight, stringless, golden yellow pods with white seeds. Mosaic tolerant.
Guatemalan Purple Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 80-90
Description: Fava bean. 3- to 4-foot plants bear intense purple seeds with an occasional black one.
Italian Snap Pole Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-70
Description: Italian Romano-type pole bean. 6- to 8-foot vines bear wide, flat, stringless pods.
Jack and the Beanstalk Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Pole green bean. 10- to 20-foot vines bear green pods eaten fresh or later white seeds for soup. Polish heirloom.
Vernandon Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 50-60
Description: French haricot vert. Harvest green beans when less than 1/4-inch wide and about 6 inches long. Disease-resistant.
Supersette Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 90-100
Description: Italian fava bean. Plants bear pods with 7 to 9 3/4-inch seeds.
Brittle Wax Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 50-50
Description: Heirloom bush wax bean. Plants bear curved, round, 6- to 7-inch, light-yellow, stringless pods.
Climbing French Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 65-75
Description: French pole bean. Plants bear lilac flowers and 4- to 7-inch, stringless pods and shiny, dark-purple seeds.
Ideal Market Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 65-70
Description: Pole green bean. Vines bear 5- to 6-inch, stringless pods.
Ireland Creek Annie's Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 70-75
Description: English heirloom bush dry bean. 2-foot plants bear yellowish seeds.
Kentucky Wonder Bush Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 65-65
Description: Bush dry bean. Plants bear round, fleshy, 8-inch pods.
Mont d'Or Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Bush yellow (wax) bean from France. 2- to 3-foot plants bear straight, oval, true yellow pods and black seeds. Completely stringless when young.
Indian Brown Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Garbanzo bean.
Grace's Edamame Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Edamane type edible soybean.
Dwarf Bees Runner Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 75-80
Description: Green bush bean. Plants bear scarlet-orange flowers, 7- to 8-inch, flat, green pods and mottled, blackish-purple beans.
Mayflower Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-100
Description: Heirloom, pole, green snap and dry bean. Vines bear short, stringy pods with small square seeds.
Lina Cisco's Bird Egg Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Heirloom bush dry bean. Vines bear pods with large tan beans with maroon markings.
Isar Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Yellow bush bean. Medium-sized, upright plants bear straight 4 1/2- to 5-inch beans with small white seeds. Resistant to anthracnose and bean mosaic virus.
Golden Butterwax Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 56-56
Description: Bush yellow (wax) bean. Plants bear yellow, straight, white-seeded pods.
Amasoy Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 82-100
Description: Bush edible soybean. 30- to 34-inch plants bear large pods.
Wren's Egg Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 63-63
Description: Heirloom, pole, dry bean that can also be harvested as a snap bean when pods are young. Plants bear slender, green, 7-inch, stringless pods.
Edamame Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Bush plants bear large pods with 3 or 4 beans per pod.
Fleetwood Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Bush navy-type dry bean. Resistant to viruses, many races of rust and halo blight.
Speckled Cranberry Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-90
Description: Pole shell/dry bean. Vines bear slender, green, stringless, 7- to 9-inch, nearly round pods until the first frost.
Black Pod Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Mung (Gram) bean (Vigna radiata). Plants bear pods that ripen to black with small green seeds.
Jicama Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Pachyrrhizus erosus, a sweet potato relative grown for tuber. Caution: Seeds and pods are poisonous. 20-foot long vines require a very long, hot season. Originated in North America, jicama is more popular in Asia where it is used as a substitute for water chestnuts or bamboo shoot. Also known as Mexican turnip, Mexican yam bean, potato bean, and yam bean.
Red Rice Bean Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Asian variety of Vigna umbelata. Plants bear red beans just larger than rice grain. Usually served in rice dishes.
Golden Wax Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Bush yellow (wax) bean. Plants bear golden-yellow, stringless pods.
Big Mama Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 80-80
Description: Pole lima bean. 8- to 10-foot vines bear 8-inch, pods filled with large beans. Developed from a New Jersey heirloom lima.
Persian Lima Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Bush lima bean. Plants bear small, colorful, bright-red beans speckled with black.
KY Bush Long Bean Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Asian bush long bean. Early, 24-inch, bush plants bear 10- to 18-inch, light-green pods with brown seeds.
Thai Red Seeded Long Bean Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Asian pole long bean. Plants bear smooth, 24-inch pods with deep red-speckled seed.
Chinese Green Noodle Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Asian pole long bean. Early-producing plants bear straight, smooth, bright-green, 20-inch pods.
Egyptian Fava Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 70-70
Description: Small-seeded, Middle Eastern fava bean. 1 1/2-foot plants bear pods with seeds smaller than European fava varieties.
Venture Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush, very early \'Blue Lake\' type green bean. 22- to 34-inch plants bear dark-green, 5- to 6-inch by 1/4- to 3/8-inch pods with white seeds. Good for freezing because most of the crop ripens simultaneously. Resistant to common bean mosaic.
Major Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 63-63
Description: Yellow (wax) bush bean. Plants bear 5 1/2- to 6-inch by 1/4-inch straight, yellow pods with black seeds.
California Blackeye 46 Cowpea Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Early black-eyed pea. 20-inch plants bear 6- to 8-inch pods held above dark green foliage for easy picking. Root-knot nematode resistant (race 1 and 3.)
Speckled Bays Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 95-95
Description: Heirloom, bush dry bean. 22-inch plants bear 6- to 7-inch long pods with creamy white and red-speckled seeds shaped like pinto beans.
Misono Green Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Edamame soybean. 2-foot plants bear 3-inch pods with 2 to 4 buff colored seeds per pod.
Worchester Indian Red Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Pole lima bean. Vines bear medium-sized dull red to maroon beans. Heat- and drought-resistant. plants and is a prolific producer under adverse conditions. Seeds range in color from .
Fowler Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Bush green bean. Compact, 16-inch plants bear 5-inch, slender, round, stringless pods with up to 7 dark-brown seeds per pod.
Potomac Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 67-67
Description: Pole green bean. Vines bear 6 1/2-inch, slightly curved, stringless beans.
Cannelino Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Italian heirloom pole Romano shelling. Vines bear flat, crescent-shaped pods with white seeds.
Ruth Bible Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Heirloom pole green bean. Long vines bear 3 1/2-inch pods with brownish-tan seeds. Best picked when small and tender before strings form. Drought-resistant.
Turkey Craw Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Heirloom pole green bean. Vines bear 3 1/2- to 4-inch pods with buff seeds frosted with brown on one end.
Black-Seeded Kentucky Wonder Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 84-84
Description: Heirloom pole green bean. Vines bear 6- to 8-inch stringless, fleshy pods with 8 to 10 seeds per pod.
Cherokee Cornfield Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 70-70
Description: Heirloom pole green/dry bean. Vines bear 6-inch pods.
Greasy Pod Cutshort Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Heirloom pole green bean. Vines bear 4- to 5-inch, smooth, shiny, slightly curved pods filled with oval white beans. Remove strings before eating.
Romano 14 Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 54-54
Description: Bush Romano type. Low, spreading plants bear fairly straight, thick 3/4- by 6-inch, stringless pods. Bush version of 'Pole Romano'.
White Christmas Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 80-80
Description: Pole lima bean. Vines bear pods with large, ivory-white seeds with a purplish blush on one corner.
Pencil Pod Black Wax Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 52-56
Description: Heirloom bush yellow (wax) bean. Plants bear stringless, curved, round, 5 1/2- to 6-inch, yellow pods with black seeds. Developed from a cross of 'Improved Black Wax' and 'Black Eyed Wax'.
Blue Ribbon Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush Romano type. Plants bear 6-inch, flat, green pods with purplish streaks.
Goldcrop Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush wax bean. Plants bear long, round, stringless, yellow pods with white seeds.
Red Peanut Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 50-50
Description: Early bush string bean. Plants bear pods that turn red at maturity and bear small pinkish seeds.
Brown Speckled Greasy Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 73-73
Description: Cutshort type pole snap bean. Vines bear 3 1/2-inch pods with 8 round, brown, speckled seeds.
Ohio Cutshort Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 80-80
Description: Cutshort pole bean. Vines bear 3- to 4-inch, tender, green pods.
Old Time Cutshort Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 75-75
Description: Cutshort pole bean. Vines bear 3- to 4-inch pods with speckled seeds.
Beautiful Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-100
Description: Bush dry/shell bean. Bush plants with short runners bear pods with seeds that are half maroon and half white.
Late Tamba Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Dwarf-type adzuki been. Plants bear rose-colored flowers and red seeds. Mature seeds used in red bean paste.
Nintoku Giant Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Fava (broad) bean. Plants bear pods usually with three large seeds in each.
Akahana Fujimame Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-100
Description: Japanese hyacinth pole bean. Vines bear red flowers and flat, thick and curved pods. Young pods can be sliced or used whole, either boiled or stir-fried.
Murasakiirohana Fujimame Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-100
Description: Japanese hyacinth pole bean. Green-leaved vines with purplish stems and veins bear flat, thick, curved, red pods. Young pods can be sliced or used whole, either boiled or stir-fried.
Purple Moon Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-100
Description: Hyacinth pole bean. Vines bear red-purple flowers and flat, thick, curved, red-purple pods. Young pods can be sliced or used whole, either boiled or stir-fried.
Shirohana Fujimame Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 100-100
Description: Hyacinth pole bean. Vines bear white flowers and flat, thick, curved, green pods. Young pods can be sliced or used whole, either boiled or stir-fried.
Mappe Green Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Mung bean. Bushy plants bear purplish-yellow flowers and curving 3-inch, hairy pods with 7 to 9 beans each. Usually used for sprouting, but can also be used fresh, shelled or dried.
Akahana Mame Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Asian pole shell bean. Vines bear red flowers and pods up to 8 inches long with 1-inch, deep red beans dappled with purple and black.
Shirohana Mame Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 80-80
Description: Asian pole shell bean. Vines bear white flowers and 8-inch pods with 1-inch, white seeds.
Kouri Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Early-maturing soybean. 2-foot-tall, semi-upright plants bear hairy pods with brown seeds.
Lucky Lion Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 75-75
Description: Early- to mid-season edamame (edible soybean). 2-foot-tall plants bear bright green pods with three beans per pod.
Tamba Kuro Otsubu Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 150-150
Description: Late maturing soybean. Plants bear pods with blace seeds.
Tankuro Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Early-maturing soybean. 2 1/2-foot plants bear pods with black seeds.
White Lion Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 70-75
Description: Early soybean. Determinate, bushy plants bear nutty-flavored seeds.
Akanata Mame Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 70-70
Description: Japanese sword bean (Canavalia gladiata). Plants bear pinkish-red flowers and beans with ridged edges. Harvest when still immature (about 4 inches long) and use like snap beans.
Shironata Mame Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 70-70
Description: Japanese sword bean (Canavalia gladiata). Plants bear white flowers and green beans with ridged edges. Harvestwhen still immature (about 4 inches long) and use like snap beans.
Akasanjaku Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 75-75
Description: Asian yard long type. Vines bear light green, stringless pods with red seeds best picked when 12 to 16 inches long. Plants thrive in hot weather.
Kurojuroku Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 75-75
Description: Asian yard long type. Vines bear dark green, slender, stringless pods with black seeds best picked when 14 to 18 inches long. Plants thrive in hot weather.
Mosaic Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 80-80
Description: Asian yard long type. Vines bear 16-inch, mottled purple, red and green pods. Plants thrive in hot weather.
Orient Wonder Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 70-70
Description: Asian yard long type. Vines bear long, slender, bright green, stringless pods with brown-red seeds. Plants thrive in hot weather.
Tsu In Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 75-75
Description: Asian/Indian yard long type. Vines bear purple, stringless pods best picked when 16 to 20 inches long. Plants thrive in hot weather. Pods retain color when cooked.
White Seeded Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Asian yard long type. Vines bear light green, stringless, 20- to 24-inch pods with white seeds. Plants thrive in hot weather.
Boby Bianco Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Bush French filet green bean. Plants bear thin, 5-inch, stringless pods.
Brittle Beurre Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 50-50
Description: Bush yellow (wax) bean. Plants bear 6-inch, yellow pods.
Rocquencourt. Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush yellow (wax) French filet type. Plants bear thin, 6- to 7-inch, yellow-orange, stingless pods.
Marconi Nano Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 50-55
Description: Heirloom bush Romano type. Plants bear flat, green, 5- to 6-inch, black-seeded pods.
Santa Anna Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Italian green pole bean. Vines bear long, slim, deep-green pods.
Anellino Giallo G. Rosso. Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Italian yellow pole anellino type bean. Vines bear round, curved, yellow pods.
Un Metro Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Italian asparagus yardlong type. Vines bear slim green, pods up to 40 inches long but best harvested at 10 to 15 inches. Also known as 'Gran Bruno'.
Borlotto of Vigevano Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 70-70
Description: Italian bush borlotto type for fresh cooked shell beans. Plants bear red-streaked pods with 5 to 7 cream beans with red mottling per pod.
Lingua di Fuoco (bush) Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 70-70
Description: Italian bush borlotto type for fresh-cooked shell beans, similar to pole type with the same name. Plants bear cream-colored, red-speckled pods with 5 to 7 creamy white beans with red splotches per pod.
Lingua di Fuoco (pole) Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 75-80
Description: Italian pole borlotto type for fresh-cooked shell beans, similar to bush type with the same name. Vines bear cream-colored, red-speckled pods with 5 to 7 creamy white beans with red splotches per pod.
Signora Della Campagna Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Italian pole bean used fresh shelled or dry. Vines bear curved, green and red pods with cream-colored beans with red splotches.
La Spagna Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 80-90
Description: Italian pole bean usually used fresh shelled or dry, but also as green bean if picked young (around 5 to 6 inches). Vines bear 9- to 10-inch pods with huge white seeds. Harvest around 80 days for fresh shelled, 90 days or more for dry beans.
Cannelini Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Italian bush bean used dry or fresh shelled. Plants bear green pods with small white beans.
Dolico-Dall’Occhio Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 70-70
Description: Italian bush filet type green bean. Tall plants bear thin green pods in clusters of three. Pick pods while thinner than a pencil, before they swell.
Principe Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 120-120
Description: Italian garbanzo bean or chickpea. Requires long season. Tolerates drought.
Cascine Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 75-85
Description: Italian fava bean. Earlier and smaller pods than most favas. Plants bear 6 tender beans per pod.
Supersimonia Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 80-90
Description: Italian fava bean. Plants bear long, bright-green pods with 8 or 9 seeds per pod.
Aguadulce Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-95
Description: Italian fava bean. Plants bear long pods with 8 or 9 seeds each.
Improved Roma Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 58-58
Description: Early bush Romano type. 2-foot plants bear wide, flat, 5-inch, stringless pods.
Pension Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Flat, Italian, bush green bean. Floppy plants bear medium-green, 6-inch by 3/4-inch, flat, green pods. Resistant to bean mosaic virus.
Gentec 401 Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 80-80
Description: Bush, dry or fresh-shell, white kidney bean.
Canton White Pod Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Asian yard long type. Vines bear long, light-green pods.
Kaoshiung Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Asian yard long type from Taiwan. Vines bear long, thick, meaty, green pods with black seeds.
Red Stripe Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Asian yard long type. Vines bear light-green pods with red- and white-striped seeds.
Stickless Wonder Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Unusual bush-type Asian yard long bean. Plants bear 15-inch, light-green pods.
Red Seedpad Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Asian yard long type. Vines produce long, dark-green pods.
Black Stripe Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Asian yard long type from Taiwan. Vines bear long, green pods with black- and white-striped seeds.
Orient Extra Long Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Asian yard long type. Vines produce long, meaty, dark-green pods with black seeds.
Matilda Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 70-70
Description: Bush green snap bean from Germany. Plants bear straight, 8- to 10-inch pods.
Hakucho Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 75-75
Description: Edamame (edible soybean). Plants bear deep green pods with light green pubescence.
Late Giant Black Seeded Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Edamame (edible soybean).
Taiwame Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Edamame (edible soybean) from Taiwan.
Black Bean Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Asian bush dry bean. Semi-running plants bear pods with light-green seeds that turn black at maturity.
Green Bean Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Asian varity. Plants bear green pods.
Indian Cluster Bean Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: 3- to 9-foot plants bear tender green pods. Mature seeds are ground for flour and to make guar gum, a thickening agent. Also known as 'Guar Bean' or 'Gum Bean'.
German Pole Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 64-64
Description: Heirloom pole green bean. Vines bear wide, flat, 1-foot, green pods with small white seeds.
Landmark Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Bush green bean. Plants bear straight, green pods. Resistant to BCMV races 1 and NY 15.
Surinam Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Heirloom Asian asparagus bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, also known as asparagus pea, winged pea, winged bean). 8- to 9-foot vines bear purple flowers and green pods with brown seeds. Also known as 'Surinam Asparagus Bean'.
Red-Seeded Asparagus Bean Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 75-75
Description: Chinese heirloom. 10-foot vines bear stringless, green pods up to 24 inches long, though best when picked at 12 to 14 inches.
Papa De Rola Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Heirloom bush green/dry bean from Portugal. 4-foot plants that need support bear green beans with seeds that are half white and half beige, streaked with red. Also known as 'Dove's Breast'.
Molly Frazier's White Cutshort Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Heirloom pole green/dry bean from the Ozarks. Short vines bear green beans with bright white seeds.
Elvie Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Bush green/dry bean. Plants bear green beans with seeds that resemble pintos.
Thai Winged Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, also known as asparagus pea, winged pea, asparagus bean. This tropical variety requires long season and bears poorly when days are long, often not bearing well until fall.
Hunan Winged Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, also known as asparagus pea, winged pea, asparagus bean. This Chinese variety performs well in much of the North.
Beurre De Roquencourt Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 55-60
Description: Heirloom bush wax bean. 18- to 24-inch plants with vining tendencies bear stringless, 6-inch yellow pods. Well-adapted to northern climates.
Baccicia Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Heirloom Italian bush green bean. 18- to 24-inch plants bear thick, flat, green beans. Can be harvested for dry beans at maturity.
Neckargold Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: French/Italian yellow (wax) pole bean bred in the Netherlands. Vines bear long, oval to slightly flattened, deep-yellow, white-seeded pods.
Musica Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 67-67
Description: Romano pole bean. 6-foot vines beaer flat, 7- to 8-inch green beans.
Marengo Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 75-75
Description: Italian pole Romano bean. Vines bear large, flattened, bright yellow pods.
Boston Favorite Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Heirloom bush dry bean.
Good Mother Stallard Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-95
Description: Heirloom pole dry bean. Seeds are mottled cream and purplish-red.
Red Swan Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 52-58
Description: Purple-podded bush bean. Plants bear string-free, 4- to 5-inch, dusty red-rose pods. A stabilized cross between a purple snap bean and a pinto.
Bruine Kogelboon Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Bush dry bean. Also known as 'Bullet' bean.
Early Idaho Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 50-50
Description: Bush green beaen. Plants bear deep green pods with brownish seeds. Selection from 'Landreth's Green Pod'.
Regal Salad Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Bush purple-podded bean. Large, sprawling plants bear purple pods. Slender version of 'Royalty Purple Pod'.
Smith River Super Speckle Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Bush shell bean. Plants bear 5- to 6-inch pods with white-flecked maroon seeds.
Carolina Red Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 80-80
Description: Pole lima bean. Vines bear red seeds. Drought tolerant.
Frosty Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 88-88
Description: Pole lima bean. Vines bear large, mauve and pink-speckled seeds with a frosty "icing" coating.
Illinois Giant Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Pole lima bean. Vines bear large red seeds with greenish undercolor.
Speedy Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Bush green bean. Early-bearing plants bear concentrated sets of fleshy, dark green, 5- to 6-inch pods.
Logan Giant Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 61-70
Description: Heirloom snap pole bean. 6- to 8-foot vines bear green pods with brown seeds.
Dean's Purple Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 55-55
Description: Heirloom purple snap pole bean. Vines bear long, round purple pods with light and dark seeds.
Amish Gnuddel Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 90-90
Description: Heirloom half-runner dry bean. 5- to 6-foot plants bear short pods. Also known as 'Amish Knuddel', 'Amish Knuttle', or 'Amish Gnuttle '.
Purple Marconi Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 67-67
Description: Purple Romano pole bean. 8-foot vines bear violet-purple, 5- to 7-inch, flat, stringless pods that turn green when cooked.
Harwig's Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Heirloom filet-type pole green bean originally from Belgium. 6- to 8-foot vines bear thin, 4- to 6-inch green pods. Also known as 'Harwig's Heirloom Belgium'.
Eva's Birdie Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Bush shell bean. Plants bear buff pods with red streaks containing speckled, pinkish-white seeds als streaked with red.
Speckbohne Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 45-60
Description: Heirloom snap bean similar to French filet types. 1-foot plants bear 3-inch, silvery-green pods about 1/3 the diameter of a pencil. Also known as 'Little White Ice'.
Light Red Kidney Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 85-85
Description: Bush dry bean. Plants bear pods with pinkish-mahogany, kidney-shaped beans.
Flaro Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 65-65
Description: Open-pollinated bush French flageolet type shell bean. Plants bear pods with pale jade beans.
Baroma Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 58-58
Description: Open-pollinated bush Romano bean. Upright, 18-inch plants bear stringless, medium-green, flat pods best harvested at about 6 inches.
Nash Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 54-54
Description: Bush green bean. Plants bear straight, 5 3/4-inch, round, olive-green pods. Resistant to bean mosaic virus. Stress and heat tolerant.
Tanya Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Pink pole 'green' bean. Vines bear long, flat, slender, pink pods that turn green when cooked.
Fiskeby Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 75-80
Description: Swedish soybean that performs well in northern climates for fresh or dry use.
Painted Pony Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-80
Description: Bush dual purpose (snap or dry) bean. Plants bear stringless green pods with tan and white seeds. 60 days for snap harvest, 80 days for dry beans.
Sultan’s Golden Crescent Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 75-75
Description: Heirloom pole yellow snap bean. Vines bear stringless, curly yellow pods.
Fiskevy Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 75-80
Description: Swedish soybean for fresh or dry use. Thrives in northern climates.
Agate Beans Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 80-80
Description: Heirloom soybean from New Mexico. Plants bear medium-sized, yellow seeds with reddish brown saddles.
 
 
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