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Vicia faba. Small seeded favas are usually relegated to cover crop status, but Sweet Lorane was selected to have good, sweet flavor, so it’s an excellent choice for a dual-purpose crop to feed both the soil and the gardener. The flavor is excellent and is especially delicious in fava hummus. Usually sown in autumn for…
Cicer arietinum. Black. Garbanzo beans are also known as chickpeas or ceci in Italian. This Sicilian variation, ceci neri, is similar to the more common Black Kaboulli garbanzo. Germinates easily in cool soil. Large, bushy plants produce well and are ready to harvest before the rains in autumn. Flavor is similar to the tan types…
Cicer arietinum. Orange/Tan. A strain of Desi-type chickpea given to us by local staple food activist, Krishna Khalsa, via Harry MacCormack, who told us, “reportedly it gives those who eat it the power of the dragon.” Smallish, orange/tan seeds cook up nicely and are very versatile in the kitchen. The Desi-type of chickpeas are usually…
Cicer arietinum. Tan. This chickpea is from León, an autonomous community in north-western Spain, where chickpeas have been a staple food since Roman times. Pico Pardal is small seeded with a pronounced beak. It is aptly named; Pico Pardal translates as “Sparrow Beak.” Creamy consistency, thin skin, cooks up fast and bakes well. If given…
Vigna mungo. Black. 80 days. Very interesting black seeded mung bean relative. Commonly consumed in India and Nepal as a protein rich staple. Mung beans are often used in a similar way to red lentils, such as in dal makhani. The flour has a sticky texture when cooked making it useful for flat breads like…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Lavender Speckled. 95 days. Beautiful green speckled purple pods are small but also taste good as a snap bean. Small, round, lavender speckled brown dry beans are so beautiful they’re like jewels. Early and productive. Delicious and very tolerant of cool maritime weather. Given to us by Keith Parkins on our original Seed…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Rosy Speckled. 90 days. Slender pods with rosy-red speckled seeds that are good in soups and pasta e fagioli. Highly productive tall climber. Very beautiful and tasty heirloom originally from Tuscany. We have been growing it for over 10 years and with each harvest we fall in love all over again because it’s…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Tan Speckled. 90 days. These very large (XXL), round, speckled beans have a rich tan and purple-red color. Hands down the largest seeded bean in our collection other than favas and runner beans. The already large beans expand in size when cooked, making them even bigger. Large pods are nice for hand harvesting…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Tan with Purple Speckles. 90 days. We are always on the lookout for short season adapted dry beans and O’Driscoll is one of the best pole beans in this category. We discovered how great O’Driscoll performs early in our Seed Ambassadors Project variety trials and after trialing several hundred more varieties of beans,…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Black. 90 days. Produces little round beans that are a very pretty, shiny black. Early and prolific in our Pacific Northwest climate. Lives up to the general reputation of pole bean flavor being excellent, with more depth of flavor when compared to bush type black beans. Best as a dry bean, but also…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Flat Green Pods. 55 days. Very aptly named, Early Riser shoots up its runners right along with its first true leaves, so your trellis better be ready. We are amazed by its early and consistent vigorous growth, and pick stringless, 8-10” Romano type snap beans weeks earlier than other pole varieties. Keeps producing…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Semi-flat Yellow Pods. 70 days. Yellow/wax bean yields lots of crunchy beans with excellent sweet and beany flavor. The 9″ long straight pods are ½” wide with a semi-flat shape. Anne Berblinger of Gales Meadow Farm in Forest Grove, Oregon, says about Gold Nectar, “We have been searching for a yellow pole bean…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Flat Purple Pods. 55-60 days. Deep purple pods, stems and leaves. Semi-flat beans with excellent raw flavor. Thrives in cool, wet weather and germinates well in the cold spring ground. Pods set early and continuously up the vines. Seeds dry down quick before the rains come. One of our highest yielding pole beans,…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Semi-flat Speckled Green Pods. 65 days. This is the bean that introduced us to multi-purpose beans. Oregon Giant Pole Snap Beans have great texture and flavor as a snap bean when young, as a shelling bean when more mature, and as a dry bean when fully mature. We like to cook pods when…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Flat Green Pods, Rose Seeds. 65 days fresh, 95 days dry. Pole Romano type bean with a slight curve to the pod. Large, 7-8″ flat beans are stringless and extremely tasty – Scalzo Italian is one of the best snap beans we have ever tasted. Plump, rose-colored seeds make it functional as a…
Phaseolus vulgaris. Flat Green Pods. 60 days. If you are tired of waiting for your pole beans to mature but still wish to grow pole beans because of their season-long production and excellent flavor, look no further. This is a great productive and early green bean with long, flat Romano type pods and large, white…
Phaseolus coccineus. Mix. 70-90 days. A genetically diverse population of edible-pod type runner beans from the British Isles. We have loved growing runner beans from across the pond for some time now and with so many good ones in our trials, we decided to let the best coalesce into one big British Pop mix. Our…
Phaseolus coccineus. White. 90-100 days. Extremely productive and easy to hand harvest, these 8′ tall plants produce tons of delicious, large, white beans. White flowers are edible, and beans are edible when young as large green beans or when mature as dry beans. But we think they are best as fresh shelling beans. White runner…
Glycine max. Green. 75 days. A good choice for early and/or short-season edamame production. Unlike many soybeans, Envy starts the season very vigorously in our cool spring soil. Plants grow to 2′ with an upright growth habit. Delicious as edamame, the green seeds can also be cooked as a dry bean if harvested before they…
Phaseolus acutifolius. Orange-Tan. 85 days. Tepary beans are small, flat beans, traditionally grown by Native Americans in the desert Southwest. Amazingly drought and heat tolerant, they prefer sandy alkaline soils, but Sacaton Brown performs very well for us even in our relatively heavy, acidic soil and cool climate. Tepary beans have more protein and higher…
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