Vegetables - Bean Seeds

This Mediterranean heirloom can be planted early, just after last frost. The four foot high bushy plant produces 5 to 8-inch pods filled with quarter-sized beans that are delicious when dried and eaten as shell beans. Also can be eaten fresh, along with the young leaves that are delightful spring greens.

This old heirloom bean is good for early planting! Hardy plants grow up to 18” tall and bear 6”-7” pods that are delicious and remain stringless at all times! Grown for snap bean or dry bean. Dried seeds are black. 48 to 70 days to maturity.

Blue Lake Bush #274 is a heavy yielding been with excellent flavor! Highly recommended for canning! Bushes grow about 16” tall and produce 5”-6” pods with white seed. Heat tolerant.

This bean variety produces a week earlier that other varieties and is very high yielding! Plants need no support and are great for your home garden! Delicious, stringless pods grow up to 6” long. Vigorous plants have some resistance to the common mosaic powdery mildew. Matures in about 50 days.

Contender beans are popular, adaptive and productive! Thick pods are tender and are great fresh, canned, or frozen! This early bean variety is dependable and ideal for cool, short season climates. Pods grow 5”-7” and are flavorful and stringless. Matures in 40 to 50 days.

The plants of the French Horticultural bean are vigorous and yield 6”-8” pods that are primarily used as snap beans. If dried, the pods turn to a yellow color splashed with red, and its seeds are purple. Can be used as a dry soup bean. This heavy yielding heirloom bean tolerates heavy soils! A half runner type that some consider a pole bean. 70 days to maturity.

Tender six-inch pods are held high off the ground on this hardy bush bean plant. Ready in just 55 days, they're string-less, tender and very easy to grow. Resistant to most bean diseases.

This cousin of Pole Kentucky Wonder has the same great taste, but has the picking advantage of a bush bean! Matures a week earlier than most bush beans (45 days). 12 to 15 inch plant is sturdy and doesn't need staking! Big yields! Eight inch meaty pods are crisp and packed with delicious seeds. Bush beans are hardier than pole beans.

This is a very popular green bean of the stringless type. It is very similar to the Burpee Stringless Green Bean.

Provider beans grow well in a variety of conditions, and are very productive! Pods are 5”-7” long, straight and green, while seeds are purple. Early to mature (50 days) this bean variety has good disease resistance. Good, tender, quality pods that are low in fiber. Plants are vigorous and strong rooted.

Extend your harvest with these great tasting Romanos, which are slow to develop tough strings and seeds. The wide, smooth flat pods get up to six inches long. Ready in 59 days, and excellent for canning since they'll hold their flavor during processing.

Add color to your garden with these purple podded snap beans! Royal Burgundy beans turn green when cooked, and are delicious fresh or canned! A good freezing variety as well! Germinates well in cool soil and is resistant to bean beetles. Tolerant of cool conditions Bush type plants are erect, vigorous and hold their yields well off the ground!.

Expect excellent yields of slender, stringless five-inch pods from this bush bean, in only 55 days. These tender beans are one of the most popular. Not only wonderful for fresh eating, canning and freezing, they're slow to become fibrous. Disease resistant, dark green plants.

These vigorous plants keep bearing during the heat of summer, producing six-inch pods in abundance. Ready in 55 days. Delicious flavor whether cooked fresh, canned or frozen.

Tendergreen Improved is a great home garden bean variety for canning and freezing as well as fresh eating! Very productive bush type plant bears tender stringless pods that are 5”-6” long. Matures in about 54 days.

This bush bean produces small, delicately flavored lima beans. Great for canning and freezing, Baby Fordhook is a great variety for the home garden and market! Matures in 70 to 75 days.

This favorite heirloom baby lima grows in dependable bush form! Great buttery tasting lima seeds are light green when ripe or white when dry. Productive and popular for the home vegetable garden or processing!

This excellent home vegetable garden variety, White Dixie Butter Pea, produces delicious, small limas. Three to four nearly round lima beans form inside each pod. Bush type plants grow from 16 to 24 inches high. This is a great lima bean variety for southern gardens, as it does well in hot weather!

This vigorous vine sets bean pods from the base to the top of its six foot height. Produces a heavy crop of tender,crisp and string-less pods that remain tender even at full maturity. Ideal for table use, canning and freezing.

This variety is a quality combination of two bean varieties, with the great flavor of the Kentucky Wonder and the enhanced sweetness of the Blue Lake. Healthy, vigorous vines grow up to 6 feet tall and produce an abundance of 6 to 7 inch dark green, white-seeded pods. Extended growing season! Sweet, tender flavor! Matures in about 60 days.

This heirloom bean variety just keeps those mouth watering beans coming all season long! Preferred by many vegetable gardeners for its distinctive flavor, the pods of this bean are, flat meaty, and slightly stringy. With supports, these plants with grow up rather than out, reaching 5 to 8 feet. Matures in approximately 65 days and makes an excellent freezing, canning, or fresh eating variety!

A vigorous climbing lima bean that gives huge yields of large white beans. Seven-inch pods hold 5-6 beans each, growing on eight to ten-foot vines that do well on poles or trellises. Takes 90 days, and bears until frost. These beans are excellent for freezing.

Missouri Wonder is a hard-to-find, heavy producing heirloom pole bean with good flavor! A very hardy bean variety that withstands harsh conditions and stress better than other pole varieties! Pods are thick, slightly curved, and stringless when young. In the old days, this variety was planted in cornfields and grew up the cornstalks for support! This allowed farmers to maximize ground space, and the beans supplied the corn with nitrogen!

These Italian style beans produce six-inch long pods full of rich flavor in just 70 days. The string-less, flat beans are terrific for freezing or table use, and are best when harvested young. Grows on tall vines up to nine feet high.

This robust bush bean will produce great yields of yellow wax beans in about 55 days! Dependable even in adverse weather, and resistant to common bean mosaic. Tasty oval pods are filled with black seeds and reach up to 6 inches long.

These yellow beans remain in prime condition for a long time, making this a great choice for your vegetable garden! Superb for freezing! Golden pods up to 6” long grow in clusters near the main stem, so it's easy to pick! About 50 days to maturity. Tender and tasty!

The straight golden pods of Golden Wax stay clear and smooth due to improved rust resistance! Stringless pods 4”-6” long are great for canning. Vigorous and high yielding!

Sungold is a widely adapted bean variety that bears straight yellow beans with great flavor! Bush-type growth up to 24” tall.