Bean Varieties
Availability varies by season and location.
Blue Lake bush beans offer the same great flavor of the Blue Lake pole bean variety in a compact and productive package. This bean is a great producer with great flavor and texture that make it a favorite for fresh eating as well as canning and freezing.
Characteristics:
- Disease Resistance: Good disease resistance
- Type: Bush bean
- Maturity: 55 Days
- Planting date: Spring after soil has warmed & danger of frost is past
- Seeds per pound: 1,350
SKU: 12262
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Blue Lake pole beans are a heavy producer that offer great tasting, stringless pods all season long when harvested regularly. They are great for growing in smaller spaces with proper trellising and support. The beans are tender and great for cooking, freezing and fresh eating.
Characteristics:
- Disease Resistance: Good disease resistance
- Type: Pole bean
- Maturity: 63 days
- Planting date: Spring after soil has warmed & danger of frost is past
- Seeds per pound: 1,200
SKU: 1541
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Contender SE bush beans are heavy producers with distinctive flavor that thrives in both cool and hot weather. These beans are dependable in cool, short-season climates and offer a tasty bean great for canning, freezing or fresh eating.
Characteristics:
- Disease Resistance: Great disease resistance
- Type: Bush bean
- Maturity: 50 days
- Planting date: Spring after soil has warmed & danger of frost is past
- Seeds per pound: 1,200
SKU: 853549
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A garden favorite, Jade bush beans are hardy and produce beautiful dark green pods with exceptional sweet and tender flavor. This variety is more heat, cold, and disease resistant than other types of beans and produces 6 to 7" long string-less pods with white beans inside. They are sturdy, upright and bushy plants that hold the pods upright for easier picking.
Characteristics:
- Disease Resistance: Excellent disease resistance
- Type: Bush bean
- Maturity: 60 days
- Planting date: Spring after soil has warmed & danger of frost is past
- Seeds per pound: 1,500
SKU: 787060
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Kentucky Blue pole beans are a stellar hybrid variety offering 6-8 inch pods that are deep green and full of flavor. As a cross between Kentucky Wonder and Blue Lake, it is the best of both parents, producing large yields of sweet, straight and stringless 7" pods to be enjoyed fresh, canned, frozen or freeze dried.
Characteristics:
- Disease Resistance: Good disease resistance
- Type: Pole Bean
- Maturity: 68 days
- Planting date: Spring after soil has warmed & danger of frost is past
- Seeds per pound: 1,600
SKU: 22635
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As a high-yielding and early producing bean, the Provider bush bean is a stellar variety for large harvests with great disease resistance. These string-less 6" long straight beans germinate in cooler soils allowing for earlier sowing and are one of the best for freezing, canning and freeze drying.
Characteristics:
- Disease Resistance: Great disease resistance
- Type: Bush bean
- Maturity: 55 days
- Planting date: Approximately 1 week after the danger of frost is past
- Seeds per pound: 1,400
SKU: 848548
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Slenderette bush beans are reliable, delicious and high-yielding garden beans with excellent disease resistance. Its sleek, tasty pods are particularly tender and crunchy with no tough tips or fibers. The bright green 5" pods ripen early in the season and are delicious steamed, stir-fried, frozen, freeze dried or even canned.
Characteristics:
- Disease Resistance: Excellent disease resistance
- Type: Bush bean
- Maturity: 50-55 days
- Planting date: Spring after soil has warmed & danger of frost is past
- Seeds per pound: 1,400
SKU: 22637
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Top Notch Golden Wax bush beans live up to their name as a compact but very productive bean with a unique golden color. These productive little plants produce string-less, golden yellow bean pods with creamy white beans that are delicious fresh, canned, frozen or freeze dried.
Characteristics:
- Disease Resistance: Good disease resistance
- Type: Bush bean
- Maturity: 55 days
- Planting date: Spring after soil has warmed & danger of frost is past
- Seeds per pound: 1,500
SKU: 848547
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Helpful Tools
Organic Matter (Compost):
Compost or another form of organic matter is a good way to improve soil drainage for more productive beans.
Fertilizer:
Planting – Phosphate does not move through the soil after planting and is essential for plant growth. Consider working Fertilome Tomato and Vegetable Food (7-22-8), Bone Meal (0-10-0) or IFA 11-52-0 Granular Fertilizer into the soil before planting.
Growing – Side dress (apply to the side of the plant and water in) an all-purpose garden fertilizer every 30 days. IFA Garden Fertilizer (16-16-8) or IFA Grand Champion (16-16-16) are both great options.
Supports/Trellises:
Pole beans (Kentucky Blue, Bush Lake, etc.) are prolific plants that need vertical support for continued growth and a quality harvest.
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