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Beans

The local grocer can’t sell the rich, classic flavor and crunchy texture of freshly harvested beans straight from your garden. One of the easiest crops to grow, beans need warm soil and will not germinate if soil is below 60°F. Inoculate with nitrogen (p. 28) for greatly increased yields. Sow seeds in well-prepared soil 1 to 2-in. deep and 2 to 4-in. apart in rows 18 to 36-in. apart. Many gardeners prefer to plant beans, particularly pole types, in hills about 3 to 5-ft. apart. Germination takes 10 to 15 days. Thinning is rarely needed. A packet of bush beans contains 2 ounces; a packet of filet beans 125 seeds, unless noted otherwise and plants 15 to 20 ft. of row or about 20 hills.
  • California Blackeye No. 5 Bean Seeds

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    For bulk sizes, click here A Southern staple where it’s used more like a bean than a pea. Profuse yielder is vigorous and reliable, with a sweet, p...

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  • French Horticultural Bean Seeds

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    For bulk sizes, click here Also called “October Bean.” Equally useful as a shell bean or as a dry bean at 90-day maturity. Vigorous plants are hard...

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  • Bulk: Contender Bean Seeds

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  • Mascotte Bean

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    SKU: 035 For bulk sizes, click here 50 days. Our most compact variety earned AAS honors for its suitability for small gardens and even for patio c...

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  • Bulk: Jade Bean

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    SKU: 031 For single packets, click here 53 days. Our most tender bean, with thin, stringless, long, 6 to 7-in. pods with an absolutely sweet, deli...

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  • Dixie Speckled Butterpea Bean

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    SKU: 076 For bulk sizes, click here 76 days. Very similar to Dixie White, except it’s about a week later and seeds are splashed with small, carmine...

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  • Windsor Bean

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    For bulk sizes, click here SKU: 066 80 days. Cool-weather substitute for lima beans in the North. Sow as soon as soil can be worked, as they don’t...

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  • Bulk: Provider Bean Seeds

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    For single packets, click here Perhaps the best for adverse weather conditions where disease resistance is critical. Long, straight, tender pods wi...

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  • Bulk: Roma II Bean Seeds

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    For single packets, click here The same distinctive flavor as the famous Romano Pole, but much earlier and a true bush type. Long, broad, flat, str...

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  • Bulk: Tenderette Bean Seeds

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    For single packet-size, click here Old heirloom that many veterans consider the most productive, most flavorful of all varieties. Keep well picked...

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    Thomas' White Dutch Runner Bean

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    For bulk sizes, click here SKU: 059 Also called White Emergo. 88 days. A grand pole bean introduced 30 years ago at R. H. Shumway Seedsman. Its 10-...

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  • Bulk: Stringless Blue Lake S-7 Bean Seeds

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  • Derby Snap Bean

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    For single packets, click here 1990 AAS Winner. Viewed as the greatest bush bean ever! But the breeder, to prevent its unintended grow-out, placed...

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  • Bulk: Fordhook 242 Bean Seeds

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    For single packets, click here Also called Potato Lima. 1945 AAS Winner. The world’s most famous large seeded lima features gigantic yields from a ...

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  • Bulk: Strike Bean Seeds

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    For single packet-size, click here Originally bred for international markets where its dramatic yields of mid-green, straight, crisp pods made it t...

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    Bulk: Pinkeye Purple Hull Pea Seeds

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  • Bulk: Kentucky Wonder Bean Seeds

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    For single packets, click here Also called "Old Homestead." Most popular pole variety famous for its distinctive tasty flavor. Tall, extremely pro...

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  • Bulk: Christmas Bean (also called Large Speckled Lima)

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    SKU: 080 For single packets, click here 80 days. Extremely productive, even during the hottest days of summer. Huge seeds – nearly the size of a ...

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  • Bulk: Kentucky Blue Bean Seeds

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    For single packets, click here 1991 AAS Winner. This extremely early bean is a major improvement on its Kentucky Wonder and Blue Lake parents. Unbe...

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  • Bulk: Slenderette Bean

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    For single packet size, click here SKU: 040 53 days. Latest strain of Tenderette  that’s a bit earlier, higher yielding and more slender in the cla...

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    Bulk: Monte Gusto Bean Seeds

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  • Bulk: King of the Garden Pole Bean Seeds

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    For single packets, click here Our most popular pole lima is reliable and extremely productive, yielding dark green pods, each filled with 4 to 6 l...

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  • Bulk: Pinto Bean Seeds

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    For single packets, click here The original re-fried bean in Mexican cooking, in tacos and in chili. Most pods are borne near the top of short, ha...

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  • Bulk: Henderson's Bean Seeds

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  • Bulk: Blue Lake FM-1 Bean Seeds

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    For single packets, click here The classic canning variety bred in Oregon’s Willamette Valley 50 years ago. Pods are long, stringless when young, t...

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    Bulk: Mountaineer White Half Runner Bean

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    SKU: 078 For single packets, click here At only 60 days it’s as early as Henderson’s and is the South’s “colored butterbean,” sporting light to dar...

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  • Bulk: Black Turtle Bean Seeds

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    For single packets, click here The best dried variety for Latin American and Caribbean cuisine. Dwarf, compact plants with semi-runners bear profus...

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  • Green Crop Bean Seeds

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    For bulk sizes, click here 1957 AAS Winner. Our earliest flat-podded bush bean! Green Crop is an award winner for its excellent flavor, adaptabilit...

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  • Bulk: Be Sweet Edamame Seeds

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  • Bulk: Pencil Pod Black Wax Bean Seeds

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  • Bulk: Bush Kentucky Wonder 125 Bean Seeds

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    For single packets, click here A bush version of the popular Kentucky Wonder Pole, with similar exceptional flavor and gigantic yields. Perhaps the...

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  • Bulk: French Horticultural Bean Seeds

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    For single packets, click here Also called “October Bean.” Equally useful as a shell bean or as a dry bean at 90-day maturity. Vigorous plants are ...

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  • Bulk: Mississippi Silver Brown Crowder Bean Seeds

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    Bulk: Maxibell Bush Bean Seeds

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    For single packets, click here The first full-size, stringless, French filet bean, with very long, really thin, crisp, deep green, unusually tasty ...

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  • Bulk: Royal Burgundy Bean Seeds

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    For single packets, click here Unusual purple pods turn bright green after two minutes in boiling water to provide a built-in blanching indicator f...

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  • Bulk: Vermont Cranberry Bean Seeds

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    For single packet-size, click here This 300-year-old New England heirloom is probably the most beautiful of all dried beans, whether used as a fre...

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  • Bulk: California Blackeye No. 5 Bean Seeds

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    For single packets, click here A Southern staple where it’s used more like a bean than a pea. Profuse yielder is vigorous and reliable, with a swee...

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  • Bulk: Improved Tendergreen Bean

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    SKU: 037 For single packets, click here 52 days. Best variety to plant late since it yields huge crops even during hot, dry weather. Vigorous, 16 ...

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  • Bulk: Lazy Housewife Bean Seeds

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    SKU: 085 For single packets, click here 95 days. The traditional baking bean for chili is also the largest of all dried beans. Produces big, flat, ...

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  • Bulk: Early Thorogreen Bean (or Cangreen) Seeds

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    For single packets, click here The classic butterbean of the South, but early enough to mature by mid-summer in the North. Compact plants are rugge...

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  • Bulk: Jacob's Cattle Bean

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    SKU: 095 For single packets, click here Also called Trout Bean or Coach Dog Bean. 85 days. An exceptionally old heirloom that's our best New Englan...

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    For single packet-size, click here SKU: 044 Also called “Burpee’s Stringless.” 50 days. Ancient heirloom from 1894 with round, brittle, 5 to 6-in. ...

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    For single packets, click here Also called "Asparagus Bean." Extremely popular in Asia and ideal in cool Northern climates, with very slender pods ...

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    Bulk: Fortex Pole Bean

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    For single packets, click here SKU: 047 63 days. Our only French filet pole type has the characteristic rich, sweet flavor possessed by the finest...

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