Whipple Dry Bush Garden Bean
Price: $2.95
SKU: 303096170 to 95 days — Although its exact history seems to have become lost to time, this bean is named after the Whipple family who raised it in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Outside the local area, it has remained relatively rare and unknown.
Some folks harvest it at the immature stage as a green bean and others wait until the green shell stage. Allow to fully mature used as a dry bean, it has an excellent, very rich, cooking flavor. The seeds are a pretty purplish-red with little white spots. Each packet contains one ounce, which is approximately 40 seeds.
Beans prefer well-drained, rich soil in a sunny location. Make sure you keep them well watered in the summer heat.
Beans are a tender vegetable and you should not plant them until all danger of frost has passed and the soil remains above 65ºF. Sow seeds 1-1½ inches deep, every two to three inches. Bush-type beans do not require support.
For seed saving, allow pods to remain on the plant until they are brittle and open easily. However, if you live in an area with a short growing season, harvest as close to dry as possible and finish drying indoors. Rain and freezing temps will damage beans.
Customer Reviews:
By Paula Beach on January 13, 2016
This is the tastiest bean I have ever tried. I used it in soup and instead of the broth adding flavor to the bean, the bean added flavor to the broth. I might also mention that these beans get huge when cooked so it isn't necessary to use many; I always put in too much. They make a good substitute for kidney beans in any recipe. I've never had success growing dried beans in my climate, so I made a few mistakes. When the beans were ripe (they have beautiful fuchsia pods) I just picked them and dumped them on a table in the garage. I lost a lot to mold that way. I now know to spread them out and put a fan on them to keep the air moving. We get too much rain for me to leave them on the plant to dry. I still got a quart of good beans (dry). The plants gave me no trouble at all and finished producing long before the frost.
By Richard Shannon on October 24, 2014
My great grandmother was a Whipple. I grew them in 2014, and gave them very little care except to water them two times per week. A woodchuck pushed dirt over some of the plants, but he didn't eat them. When I harvested them I got 48 oz. from 1-1/2 oz. of seeds planted. I'm looking forward to my first batch of baked beans. In my climate it was 90 days to maturity.
By Antoinette Miller on January 30, 2014
My daughter & I grew these beans in our 2013 garden. They were easy to care for with no pest or disease problems and had an outstanding flavor. We've been enjoying them throughout the Winter since we had plenty to store. Will definitely grow these again in our 2014 garden!
