Snap Bean (String, Green or French Bean) 'Emerite'

I have been growing this bean for many years and it is the most trouble free, productive, good tasting bean I have ever grown. It is gro...Read Morewn in raised beds on netting, usually . But I always make a bean wigwam for the little kids to enjoy each year.

Here in central Wisconsin I don't try for anything I would call an early season bean, so my report on Emerite is mid to late season exper...Read Moreience.

First time, 2008. Grew 8 feet and wanted to keep growing! Long straight tasty beans. I had no problem with drying or curling or woodiness. I grow in raised beds so water with collected rainwater, daily. That might be the reason for my success. That and organic dairy cow compost!

Delicious bean. I can get behind with picking so I like it if I do not have to pick every day during the height of their production and beans were still slim and tender.

I am sticking with fillet beans in future and need pole type for space constraints. Also I search out open pollinated types whenever I can. That limits choices. I am completely satisfied with Emerite and will be growing twice as many in 2009.

Early beans during main season were short and C-shaped and too much bother to pick and eat, but late season it shone; kept producing into...Read More fall (until after first frost...) when the other beans were done. Less insect damage than the other varieties, too.

Good quality in moderate weather. In very hot weather, beans hang on vine, curl up and become woody or leathery. Remove these to promot...Read Moree new bloom when weather cools off.