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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.
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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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    For single packets, click here Our best “baby lima” is early enough for Northern climates, with 3 to 4 extra-sweet beans. Its reliability, high yie...

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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: 056 For single packets, click here 60 days. Said to have originated by German settlers of the Dutch Fork section of South Carolina, only 60 m...

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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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  • Bulk: Jackson Wonder 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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  • 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: Pencil Pod Black Wax Bean Seeds

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    For single packets, click here Easily the best round-podded wax bean. Long, straight pods are flavorful, tender, brittle, stringless and bright yel...

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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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    For single packets, click here Easiest crowded to pick and shell, with smooth, well-filled pods loaded with uniform, creamy green colored seeds of ...

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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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    For single packets, click here One of the great heirlooms loved for its ease of shelling or snapping. All purpose variety can be used as a snap, sh...

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  • Bulk: Dark Red Kidney

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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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  • Bulk: Stringless Green Pod Bean

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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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  • Bulk: Orient Wonder Bean Seeds

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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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