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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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    For single packet-size, click here 2003 AAS Winner. This bean is a completely stringless improvement on the old Blue Lake FM-1, with same rich, dis...

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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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    For single packets, click here Best variety for insect and disease resistance, even bacterial virus which can plague this variety in the South wher...

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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: 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: 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: 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: Rattlesnake Bean Seeds

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    For single packets, click here Hundred-year-old heirloom features snake-like markings on the purple-streaked, round, dark green pods that possess ...

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  • Bulk: Desperado Bean Seeds

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    For single packets, click here Perhaps the best variety to combine superb heat tolerance with wide adaptability to conditions virtually anywhere. ...

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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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