C, N

Heavy yield potential. A standard. Use Slenderette for improved quality.

Productive, widely adapted. Early vigor in cool soil. Tolerates heat. Popular.

Revolutionary! Long, round, straight pods. Excellent color, flavor, and yield potential.

Improved Bush Kentucky 125 type. Concentrated pod set. Very upright plant. Low fiber.

Attractive dark green pods are slow to become fibrous. Excellent flavor.

Used when very small—3.5" to 4", served as a whole bean, in the French gourmet style. A European standard for this use.

Widely adapted, bears in clusters, yields heavy early, slow to wilt, low fiber

Remarkable flavor and tenderness. Slow to fiber. High yield potential.

Purple pods turn green when cooked. Good vigor in cool soil. Tasty.

Buff seeds germinate better than white in cool soil. Short runners, purple flowers. Mexican bean beetles avoid it.

Improved Blue Lake type. Slow to become fibrous, so quality is legendary.

Vigorous. Known for bearing during hot weather. Bears pods high on plant. Slow to become fiberous.

Expect a heavy yield of meaty beans from this widely adapted garden standard.

Heavy, concentrated set. Good canner, freezer. One of the best known beans.

Resistant or tolerant to: C – Common Bean Mosaic; CT – Curly Top;
N – New York 15 Virus; P – Pod Mottle; R – Rust

Standard black–seeded wax bean.

Fine flavor, ideal for north, reliable yields, cans and freezes well.

Consistent high quality. Tolerates heat and white mold. See Slenderette.

Resistant or tolerant to: A – Anthracnose; C – Common Bean Mosaic; CT – Curly Top;
N – New York 15 Virus; P – Pod Mottle; R – Rust

Known for heavy yields of top quality beans. Excellent. Resistant or tolerant to Common Bean Mosaic

Delicious, distinctive flavor. A home garden standard for generations.

Southern favorite for snap beans and shelling. Prolific, vigorous vines, evergearing, always stringless!

Similar to KY Wonder with loyal following in Show Me State and up the Ohio River.

Also called Preacher Bean. Distinctive pod coloring, fine flavor, good resistance to drought.

Unique flavor, vigorous vines, dependable yields.

Almost string less. Everbearing. Prolific in cool climates.

Bears pods in clusters of 5 or 6 at center of plant. Fresh or dry. Fatter than Fordhook.

Popular for flavor, canning and freezing in South.

Popular in the South for excellent butter–bean flavor for canning, freezing.

Standard large lima.

The popular baby lima.

Tolerates heat and drought.

8-10'

Bears over a long season. Stands heat.

Seeds turn pink–brown when cooked. Rich flavor. Able to bear in extreme heat.

Heavy yields over a long period. Freezes well. Top pole lima.

Good freezer. Pole Henderson type.

Vigorous plants, big yields. Stringless when young, excellent for baking.

For snap beans when young or for dry beans when mature.

Pleasing strong flavor, excellent high yields, needs no staking, stringless when young. Tolerates heat and drought.

Traditional chili bean. Inedible pods. Vigorous plants tolerate late rain well.

Fava Beans thrive planted in cool weather like peas. Plant 1" deep in rows 18"-36" apart. The long pods hold large flat beans for shelling.

Large Navy type. Hardy, vigorous plant grows well in north. Long, thin–skinned seeds excellent for baking and soups, cook one third faster than Navy.

Small white beans won’t get mushy when cooked. Stand reheating.

85 days to dry shell. Good for dryland conditions. Good very young as snap beans. Popular as refried beans.

Beautiful fire–engine red flowers. Pods edible when very young.

Eat like other beans or peas. Exceptionally nutritiuous and tasty—cold or hot, for snacks or meals, even if you don’t like tofu. Easy to grow. Easy to prepare. Developed for the human diet by Dr. Richard Bernard, U of Illinois, Urbana.

Used very young as snap beans, but mostly for shell beans. Semi–runner plants do well in cool climates. Also called Shelley bean.