Beans Pole

Blue Lake

Blue Lake beans are straight, stringless and unusually smooth, with a stronger flavour than the bush variety. Its large numbers of dark green pods are round, tender and meaty, and 15-18cm (6-7") long. Seeds are white and plants are long bearing.
Matures in 65 days. (open pollinated seeds)

Fortex Filet

This stringless French pole bean produces exceptionally long, medium-green pods that grow to over 27cm (11”). Fortex can also be harvested at 15-20cm (6-8”) for extra slender “filet” beans. The delicate, sweet flavour is wonderful served fresh or frozen. For fine restaurants and fresh market. A vigorous climber.
Matures in 70 days. (open pollinated seeds)

Kentucky Blue

Kentucky Blue Pole Bean seeds combine the great taste of Kentucky Wonder with the cool season hardiness of Blue Lake. Long, round 24cm (9") pods are dark-green and straight, and the plants bear over a long season. AAS Winner!
Matures in 70 days. (open pollinated seeds)

Kentucky Wonder Brown

Kentucky Wonder Pole Bean is an HEIRLOOM seed developed in Kentucky before 1864. This is the brown-seeded strain of a very popular pole bean and is well-loved for its vigour and fine "beany" flavour. The 24cm (9") long, oval, silvery-green pods are virtually stringless and borne on very tall vines. Darker seeds sprout better in cool soils.
Matures in 70 days. (open pollinated seeds)

Kentucky Wonder Wax

Wax means yellow in this variety! Kentucky Wonder Wax is a vigorous climber and heavy yielder of slight flattened yellow pods about 15cm (6") long. Keep plants well picked for production all summer. The light brown seeds will sprout in cooler soils than white-seeded varities.
Matures in 70 days. (open pollinated seeds)

Matilda

Big, nicely shaped, round, straight pods that average 15cm (6") long are heavily produced on this variety from German breeding. The flavour is both sweet and mild. Plants are vigorous, productive, and early, but will produce all season long if you keep them well picked.
Matures in 70 days. (open pollinated seeds)

Purple Peacock

Purple Peacock Pole Bean is a simply beautiful plant with dark purple pods, twining stems, light purple flowers, and dark leaves. This pretty variety is a very striking and useful screen in the garden and grows to 2m (6") tall. These beans flower first of all the bean varieites and handle cool conditions well. Purple pods to 13cm (5") long keep their flavour and tenderness long after they are picked, and turn green when cooked. Plants set abundantly. Seeds are beige.
Matures in 70 days. (open pollinated seeds)

Romano Pole

Big, hearty, Roman green beans that are delicious cooked whole while immature, stringless, and tender, or grown on for full sized beans to be shelled from the pods. These tasty HEIRLOOM beans are the very best for freezing, and grow on very tall vines, so you'll want good support. One of the best ideas for trellising Romano beans that we've seen came from the Burnaby Allotment Garden Association. Growers there use tall poles that can be collapsed from the bottom, so the whole plant can come down at harvest time. Otherwise, you'll want a ladder for these vigorous growers!

Matures in 67 days. (open pollinated seeds)

Yard Long Beans

Vigna unguiculata ssp. sesquipedalis
The yard-long beans so loved in Chinese and other Asian cuisines! So these sub-tropical seeds in very warm soil in late June, and pick the pods while they are still tender and immature. Or start them a bit earlier in a greenhouse setting for more abundant performance. Although they are called yard-long or yardlong beans, the pods only reach about a foot and a half - a point that did not escape the person who gave it the subspecies name sequipedalis. Sorry this item Not available for 2012
Begins to produce pods 60 days after sowing. (open pollinated seeds)