HEIRLOOM. Pretty flowers and fantastic beans all in one.

Full Description

Exemplary ornamental edible. Large, showy sprays of bright scarlet-orange flowers followed by oodles of 8" slender pods with richly flavored beans. Young pods can be used as snap beans, use mature pods when fresh or dry them for winter. The more you pick the more these 10' plants bear.

• Seedlings emerge in 10-14 days depending on soil and weather conditions.
• Keep sowing bush bean seeds every 2 weeks for a constant supply of beans.
• Thin gradually to stand 6 inches apart when seedlings are 1-2 inches high.

• Harvest and Preserving Tips

  • For fresh use, pick pods as soon as well-filled out with peas
  • For dried bean use, harvest in about 80 days, when the pods start to dry on the plant.
  • To Dry Beans: Allow the beans to stay on the plants until they are partially dry. Then pull up the plants and hang them in a warm, dry place with good air circulation until the pods and seeds are thoroughly dry. Shell the beans and save the pods and plants for composting.