Post by JackiMac on May 29, 2006 13:09:04 GMT -5
BUSH TYPE**
Cranberry
70 days — An heirloom horticultural bean variety popular in New England dating back to the mid-1800s. The seeds are buff mottled with cranberry. Used dry or green shelled, there are 5 to 6 seeds per pod. The plants are hardy and they are easy to shell. The flavor is sweeter and more delicate than pinto beans. Popular for Italian, Spanish and Portuguese dishes.
Swedish Brown
95 days — Origins are from Scandinavia in the 1890s. Nice nutty flavor for soups or baked. 5 to 7 light brown seeds with white eyes per pod on 15 inch plants. Does good in the North.
Steuben Yellow Eye (a.k.a. Molasses Face)
90 days — Beautiful cream colored beans with a splash of yellow over the eye. Popular field bean in New England, the 18 inch bush-type plants are hardy and prolific. Excellent for soup and baking.
Appaloosa
85 days — The plant can reach 24 inches and have short runners. The seeds have one cream half and the other is maroon and mottled with various patterns - like the tail end of an Appaloosa horse. Can be used young as a snap bean but generally dried and shelled.
Calypso
70 to 90 days — Nice texture and used as a baking bean. The plants reach 15 inches and are strong. The pods contain 4 to 5 seeds which are white and black with black dots in the white part of the seed. Harvest young as a snap bean and after about 90 days for dry use. ** VERY SHORT SUPPLY-GROWING OUT**
Jacob's Cattle Bean
One of the oldest and most popular of heirloom beans. It's big and meaty, with a slight new potato taste and texture. An excellent substitute for the French bean, Tarbais, although Jacob's Cattle is much bigger. Regional chefs in the East insist on these for their baked beans. Bush habit. 90 Days.
Dragon's Tongue Bean
Dutch wax bean that has large 6-8" cream-colored pods with thin purple stripes that disappear when blanched. Wide, extremely crisp and juicy stringless pods. Compact high yeilding plants. Bush habit, 55-60 days.
Roma II (59 days)
More and more home gardeners are discovering the remarkable flavor and tenderness of this bush type Romano or Italian bean. Roma II produces high yields of large medium green, smooth, flat pods that are very slow to develop seed and fiber. If picked regularly, plants will continue to bear for 3 weeks or longer. Upright bush plants hold pods well off the ground. Tenderness and flavor make it one of the very best varieties for canning and freezing.
POLE TYPE*
Christmas Lima (a.k.a. Giant Butter, Giant Florida Pole)
90 days — This is a large, quarter dollar-sized, flat bean that is colored light cream with maroon spots, splashes, and swirls. An heirloom bean dating back to the 1840s, it has been a favorite for many generations. The vines are vigorous and reach up to ten feet, produces heavy yields, and does well even in extreme heat. It has a butter-like texture and a subtle chestnut-like flavor. Can be used as either a green shelled or dry bean and retains the markings after being cooked.
Dixie Butterpea Speckled
75 days — The seeds are almost round, small, reddish-brown speckled with darker brown. The plants are bushy, vigorous growing to about two feet in height. The pods are slightly curved, about four inches long, and contain three to four seeds each. Adapted for the Southern U.S., they are very productive in hot, dry conditions. **OUT FOR THE SEASON - GROWING**
Cherokee Trail of Tears Bean
Cherokee ancestors carried this bean over the Trail of Tears, the infamous winter death march from October 1838 in the Smoky Mountains to March 26, 1839 in Oklahoma, leaving a trail of 4,000 graves. Shiny jet-black seeds. Green 6" pods with purple overlay, good for snaps and dry beans. Pole habit, 85 days. **OUT FOR THE SEASON - GROWING**
Mayflower Bean
Said to have been brought over on the Mayflower in 1620, followed by a long history of being circulated in the Carolinas. Cutshort-type, which are prized for great flavor, despite strings. Short pods are packed with small square seeds. Very productive, also good as a dry bean. Pole habit, 100 days. **20 SEEDS LEFT**
Monkey Tail
Hardy, rambling vines produce extra-long pods with unusual cocoa-tan colored beans. From the UCD Seed Saving Project, collected in Africa. **GROWING OUT**
SOYBEAN
Envy ***GROWING OUT***
GardenSoy **30 seeds available**
BEANS WITH NO INFORMATION**GIVE THEM A TRY AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU SEE**
Spanish Bean
Boyd's Beautiful
Rice Bean
Red Beauties of Colorado
**BLACK UNKNOWN TYPE - Could be:
Ideal Market
Black Valentine
RocDor
Gita
Black Turtle
Pencil Pod
Black Seeded Blue Lake
Marvel of Venice
THESE WERE RECEIVED IN A TRADE AND THEY WERE LABELED BIG MAMA LIMA...THEY AREN'T BY A LONG SHOT LOL I AM GROWING OUT 2006 SEASON IF POSSIBLE***
At the end of this season I should have 3 or 4 GREASY BEAN varieties to add**
Cranberry
70 days — An heirloom horticultural bean variety popular in New England dating back to the mid-1800s. The seeds are buff mottled with cranberry. Used dry or green shelled, there are 5 to 6 seeds per pod. The plants are hardy and they are easy to shell. The flavor is sweeter and more delicate than pinto beans. Popular for Italian, Spanish and Portuguese dishes.
Swedish Brown
95 days — Origins are from Scandinavia in the 1890s. Nice nutty flavor for soups or baked. 5 to 7 light brown seeds with white eyes per pod on 15 inch plants. Does good in the North.
Steuben Yellow Eye (a.k.a. Molasses Face)
90 days — Beautiful cream colored beans with a splash of yellow over the eye. Popular field bean in New England, the 18 inch bush-type plants are hardy and prolific. Excellent for soup and baking.
Appaloosa
85 days — The plant can reach 24 inches and have short runners. The seeds have one cream half and the other is maroon and mottled with various patterns - like the tail end of an Appaloosa horse. Can be used young as a snap bean but generally dried and shelled.
Calypso
70 to 90 days — Nice texture and used as a baking bean. The plants reach 15 inches and are strong. The pods contain 4 to 5 seeds which are white and black with black dots in the white part of the seed. Harvest young as a snap bean and after about 90 days for dry use. ** VERY SHORT SUPPLY-GROWING OUT**
Jacob's Cattle Bean
One of the oldest and most popular of heirloom beans. It's big and meaty, with a slight new potato taste and texture. An excellent substitute for the French bean, Tarbais, although Jacob's Cattle is much bigger. Regional chefs in the East insist on these for their baked beans. Bush habit. 90 Days.
Dragon's Tongue Bean
Dutch wax bean that has large 6-8" cream-colored pods with thin purple stripes that disappear when blanched. Wide, extremely crisp and juicy stringless pods. Compact high yeilding plants. Bush habit, 55-60 days.
Roma II (59 days)
More and more home gardeners are discovering the remarkable flavor and tenderness of this bush type Romano or Italian bean. Roma II produces high yields of large medium green, smooth, flat pods that are very slow to develop seed and fiber. If picked regularly, plants will continue to bear for 3 weeks or longer. Upright bush plants hold pods well off the ground. Tenderness and flavor make it one of the very best varieties for canning and freezing.
POLE TYPE*
Christmas Lima (a.k.a. Giant Butter, Giant Florida Pole)
90 days — This is a large, quarter dollar-sized, flat bean that is colored light cream with maroon spots, splashes, and swirls. An heirloom bean dating back to the 1840s, it has been a favorite for many generations. The vines are vigorous and reach up to ten feet, produces heavy yields, and does well even in extreme heat. It has a butter-like texture and a subtle chestnut-like flavor. Can be used as either a green shelled or dry bean and retains the markings after being cooked.
Dixie Butterpea Speckled
75 days — The seeds are almost round, small, reddish-brown speckled with darker brown. The plants are bushy, vigorous growing to about two feet in height. The pods are slightly curved, about four inches long, and contain three to four seeds each. Adapted for the Southern U.S., they are very productive in hot, dry conditions. **OUT FOR THE SEASON - GROWING**
Cherokee Trail of Tears Bean
Cherokee ancestors carried this bean over the Trail of Tears, the infamous winter death march from October 1838 in the Smoky Mountains to March 26, 1839 in Oklahoma, leaving a trail of 4,000 graves. Shiny jet-black seeds. Green 6" pods with purple overlay, good for snaps and dry beans. Pole habit, 85 days. **OUT FOR THE SEASON - GROWING**
Mayflower Bean
Said to have been brought over on the Mayflower in 1620, followed by a long history of being circulated in the Carolinas. Cutshort-type, which are prized for great flavor, despite strings. Short pods are packed with small square seeds. Very productive, also good as a dry bean. Pole habit, 100 days. **20 SEEDS LEFT**
Monkey Tail
Hardy, rambling vines produce extra-long pods with unusual cocoa-tan colored beans. From the UCD Seed Saving Project, collected in Africa. **GROWING OUT**
SOYBEAN
Envy ***GROWING OUT***
GardenSoy **30 seeds available**
BEANS WITH NO INFORMATION**GIVE THEM A TRY AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU SEE**
Spanish Bean
Boyd's Beautiful
Rice Bean
Red Beauties of Colorado
**BLACK UNKNOWN TYPE - Could be:
Ideal Market
Black Valentine
RocDor
Gita
Black Turtle
Pencil Pod
Black Seeded Blue Lake
Marvel of Venice
THESE WERE RECEIVED IN A TRADE AND THEY WERE LABELED BIG MAMA LIMA...THEY AREN'T BY A LONG SHOT LOL I AM GROWING OUT 2006 SEASON IF POSSIBLE***
At the end of this season I should have 3 or 4 GREASY BEAN varieties to add**