This is a very productive novelty. Long flat purple colored pole bean. Pretty typical of old type pole bean, 9-10 inches long with string...Read Mores. Like many of the old beans they get fibrous (shucky) as beans form. Not very good quality as a snap bean in my book, but a quite interesting novelty.
I've grown this bean for years, since first getting the seed from the SSE. The flowers and beans are purple and the plants are very tall...Read More, easily go up and over my 8' trellis. Pods are flat Romano-type, purple when growing and turn green when cooked. Very flavorful, tender, and wide pods are great for making French-style beans. Extremely productive when kept picked.
These were pretty plants all with a purplish hue to the leaves as well as the stems. The beans were purple and flavorful. We didn't take ...Read Morethem all in, and had some that self-sowed for a pleasant suprise the following year.
grew plant back in Rhodesia Africa have been searching for seed ever since
Where can I obtain seed ?
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This is a very productive novelty. Long flat purple colored pole bean. Pretty typical of old type pole bean, 9-10 inches long with string...Read More
I've grown this bean for years, since first getting the seed from the SSE. The flowers and beans are purple and the plants are very tall...Read More
These were pretty plants all with a purplish hue to the leaves as well as the stems. The beans were purple and flavorful. We didn't take ...Read More