After going thru "forty-eleven" different varieties of pole and snap beans, I've finally settled on Blue Lake. It gives me a very early start and a few "messes" for eating fresh early in the growing season. Then it floods the picking baskets with plenty to have us canning for a while.
After that rush, if you keep them alive and bug-free, they will give you a few more "messes" for fresh eating. The other choice is to have a second crop. They are early enough that when the first plants finally go down, you can till and plant a second crop that will be ready well ahead of frost.
For the last two years I've ordered "Blue Lake 274 Bush Beans" from Henry Fields and have been very satisfied with the purity of the seeds. Local Co-ops have had seeds that were not true to type and some that were just wrong (Blue Lakes were actually Half Runners).
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Ted
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Owner & Sole Operator Of
The Muddy Bucket Farm
and Tomato Ranch
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