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SKU: 3031351I planted these beans in Spring 2022 and they are still popping up in my garden from that original planting! I had to thin dozens of plants in my bed down to 15 volunteers and I planted some on a grape trellis last week to see how they would do in partial shade. This is bean that will keep a family in beans by planting just a few seeds, 5-6. With 15+ I'm excited to see what produces more for canning- these or your typical go-to bush varieties. It's an easy bean to grow, powers through heat, cold, humidity and drought, pests like Japanese beetles and thriving when Long Island Cheese pumpkin vines almost completely choked them out last; our first volunteer crop. These even produced after the first couple of frosts although they did slow down. These do get stringy if you leave them on the vines for days. But it's a small gripe when you can purchase seeds once and get many years of growth out of one packet.
I grew these pole beans on a trellis in my garden in 2021. Once they start bearing, they just don't stop and I finally quit picking because I didn't need to can anymore. The taste is just like bush green beans but they are much easier to pick. Delicious raw or canned. Beautiful on the trellis and not at all bothered by pests.