Gigandes Beans
 

I received a pound and a half of Gigandes beans this morning, cost to me was $22. These beans are HUGE. They are all over an inch long and some of them are over an inch and a half. These are clearly Runner Beans, not Lima.
[URL]http://www.allgreektome.net/[/URL]

The website is just a link to their Ebay page.

I am going to try germinating these beans and see if they grow.

DarJones

Darrel,

I might have found something of yours that you can send me, in exchange for what I sent you.;)

Gary

I hope you will keep us posted with your results, taste and growth habit. Sounds very interesting

I love those beans! I buy them marinated in olive oil, spices and vinegar from the antipasto bar at a local super market and they are very expensive. I just went and ordered some also. I hope you get a huge crop of these beans so that I can buy them from you.
Sue B.

Folks, if you are interested, I will send you a pack of 20 seed for $4. I only have enough beans to make up about 10 packs plus keep 100 of them to grow and see if I can get them to mature. The seed will be unselected, in other words, whatever size hits my hand first is the size I will ship.

$1.50 for 20 beans
$0.65 for a bubble mailer
$1.50 estimated postage
I am rounding up to $4.00

You can always go to the website I listed above and purchase them for about $12 per 13 ounce bag which contains roughly 150 seed. Please remember that runner beans are adapted to cool long moderate climates. They do NOT normally produce a crop in the deep south.

DarJones

Fusion..you know how I so deparately am looking for them.

XX Jeannine

Got them..fingers crossed they are the right size..as you know from the other thread I have been searching for replacements for mine and have bought many others.. but the size sounds right by your description. I haf founf=d inch ones several times but the elusive bigger I was use was what I was after.

Stay in touch, maybe one of will germinate them and be able to share fresher ones later.

Thank you

XX Jeannine

I know that runner beans are grown for the flowers here but I don't think our season is long enough to produce the beans. It certainly is cool enough tho.
Sue B

I have grown Gigandes in BC and in the UK for years. I start them in 3 inch pots as early as I dare

I don't know about Alaska though they are pretty long season runners but very special.

XX Jeannnine

Eva's recipes are really good, here's a video clip

[URL]http://thursdayfordinner.com/2008/11/gigantesyiyantes-greek-giant-baked-beans/[/URL]

edited to add I haven't tried this particular recipe, not sure if pressure cooker was used or not??

(deleted) This post was a mess... That'll teach me to try to figure out what's being said in a video when my sound card doesn't work and I can't hear it...

Congratulations, Fusion, on your find. As you know from another forum, I've been searching for these for quite some time. Like Jeannine, I've found that there are both limas & runners sold by the name "Gigandes" (or variations thereof) and most of those I've come across were limas, even when they claimed otherwise. I'll be ordering some myself.

Darrell, I sent an Ebay message to the dealer, asking if the beans were oven-dried or air-dried. Just got back his reply, they're air-dried and should be good to plant after being soaked in water for approximately 24 hours.

I think I want some too, will send PM shortly.

Darrell:
Sounds like these would grow in Wisconsin. I would like to take you up on your offer for the 20 seeds. PM coming.
Thanks
Chris

@ PNW_D: The gist of the embarrassingly inept post I deleted was, I don't think Eva used a pressure cooker, and I don't think she used dried beans. I think she was using freshly shelled Gigantes the whole time.

I still sort of think so, but then I realized that all the rest of you have working sound cards on your computers and can actually [I]hear [/I]what she's saying... And yateda yateda... Don't wanna look even more like a fool than I usually do, should it happen that I'm obviously wrong...

Plaki is a regular dish in my house

|XX Jeannine