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Snap Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) Among the very easiest of veggies to grow, snap beans are pretty much a necessity in any garden. Many snap beans also make good dry beans and if you don’t mind de-stringing, many dry beans make fine snap beans. All varieties in this section are stringless at least while young. Each packet costs $3.00 and contains 60-100 seeds or 30 grams, unless otherwise noted. (New) Sequoia - The flat, romano-style pods are a deep purple colour with lots of flavour and a wonderful meaty texture. (New) Provider - This popular garden standby lives up to it’s name with heavy and dependable yields of round, 5-6 inch green pods. One of our earlier maturing snap beans. (New) Soleil - A sunny yellow filet bean with long, incredibly tender and crispy pods. One of my favourite snap bean varieties. It’s a heavy yielder and it bears all it’s pods uniformly, which makes picking lots for canning or freezing easier. (New) Alice Sunshine - A good multi-use variety. The flat green pods are sweet and crunchy as a fresh snap bean and when left to mature and dry the amber splotched seeds make great dry beans. Blue Jay - A new favourite of mine. This bush bean is excellent eaten in the snap stage and also makes a beautiful dry bean (blue jay colours!). Rescued from obscurity by Bob Wildfong, it made its way to me via Andrea Berry of Hope Seeds. Save these seeds and be part of the comeback! Aramis - This tender, productive French filet bean is definitely one of my favourites. Bush plants. 15 grams per package (the seeds are fairly small and have the normal count per package). Royalty - A purple podded bush variety developed by Elwyn Meader in 1957. The slightly flat pods turn green when cooked. Honey - An excellent yellow wax bean, nice yields of sweet, crispy pods from bush plants. Pole: (New) Tonello - A very special Nova Scotia family heirloom. Brought to Canada from Italy by Santo Luigi Tonello. Santo and his wife Yolanda settled in Liverpool, NS in 1921 and on a return visit to Italy they brought back a small handful of these beans hidden in his shirt pocket. They've been thriving here ever since! A very prolific pole bean with large flat pods (green when small, maturing to yellow) and beautiful black seeds. A great multi-use bean (New) Golden Gate Wax - An excellent yellow wax bean with long, slightly flattened pods produced on the tall plants. Lazy Housewife - My personal favourite snap bean. Plants are immensely productive. A well-tended patch will keep you in fresh beans all summer with enough left over to freeze or can. Plants are prolific climbers growing as high as you will let them. Provide a strong support as vines will be heavy when laden with pods. This was the first completely stringless snap bean developed in 1810. To top it off it’s also a good dry bean. Highly recommended Purple Peacock - Massive yields of sweet purple pods on 10'+ vines. The stems and flowers are also purple making for an impressive sight. Goldmarie - The large, flat, golden yellow pods are so sweet it's hard to get them out of the garden uneaten! Prolific vines will swallow even the largest tipis.
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