{"title":"Pole Bean Seeds","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"half-runner-mountaineer-white","title":"Pole Bean Seeds - Mountaineer White Half Runner","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhaseolus vulgaris\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExpect flavorful 4\" beans from this high yielding variety. With a bush habit that sends out yard-long runners, some growers may trellis for easier harvest and containment, but also grows well without it. Stringy when left on the plant too long. Mosaic resistant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"- Beans -","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32969615081549,"sku":"149-001-1-C","price":3.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2550\/8730\/products\/Bean_Half_Runner_Mountaineer_White_CD.jpg?v=1621009659"},{"product_id":"pole-bean-kentucky-wonder","title":"Pole Bean Seeds - Kentucky Wonder","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePhaseolus vulgaris\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eHEIRLOOM. Long, meaty, and stringless, introduced in 1877, this reliable bean provides huge yields of straight and smooth eight to nine inch pods. 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Originally from Madison County, NC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14 gram packet contains a minimum of 20 seeds.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSMALL FARM GROWN by Cory Ridge Farm in Porter, MN\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"- Beans -","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33143919968333,"sku":"013-011-1-G","price":4.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2550\/8730\/products\/Bean_Pole_Lazy_Wife_Greasy_CD.jpg?v=1578326457"},{"product_id":"pole-bean-rattlesnake","title":"Pole Bean Seeds - Rattlesnake","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhaseolus vulgaris\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eHEIRLOOM. Beautiful green pods with purple streaks. An indigenous heirloom, high yields of tender seven inch pods and speckled beans are great fresh or dried. Well-adapted to the south.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"- Beans -","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37229980811433,"sku":"013-001-1-C","price":3.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2550\/8730\/products\/Bean_Pole_Rattlesnake_CD.jpg?v=1621014987"},{"product_id":"pole-bean-turkey-craw","title":"Pole Bean Seeds - Turkey Craw","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"latin\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhaseolus vulgaris\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHEIRLOOM. This variety came to us from outstanding then-teenage gardener Kyle Johnson, of Greeneville, TN. It is stringless and has excellent flavor as a snap bean or a dry bean. In folklore, this variety was first cultivated when a hunter shot a turkey and removed a bean from the craw. The bean was planted and saved, hence the name 'Turkey Craw'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA minimum of 30 seeds per packet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Turkey Craw bean is part of the Slow Food Ark of Taste! \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSMALL FARM GROWN by Thompson Heritage Farms in Mexico, MO\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"- Beans -","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38015263473833,"sku":"013-006-1-C","price":3.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2550\/8730\/products\/Bean_Pole_Turkey_Craw_Heirloom_CD_web.jpg?v=1579631777"},{"product_id":"pole-bean-golden-gate-romano-organic","title":"Pole Bean Seeds - Golden Gate Romano, ORGANIC","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhaseolus vulgaris\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eORGANIC. HEIRLOOM. Sunshine yellow flattened pods stand out beautifully against the deep green foliage, making them very easy to see and harvest.  Delicious, tender and stringless even when they're mature at almost 10 inches long and 1 inch wide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSMALL FARM GROWN by Cory Ridge Farms in Porter, MN. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"- Beans -","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38008889311401,"sku":"013-043-1-G","price":4.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2550\/8730\/products\/Bean_Pole_Golden_Gate_romano_CD_white.jpg?v=1578326455"},{"product_id":"half-runner-nantahala-white","title":"Pole Bean Seeds - Nantahala White Half-Runner","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnavailable for 2026 due to crop failure\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhaseolus vulgaris\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHEIRLOOM. This seed stock was sent to us by James Morgan of Marble, NC where he reports that his family has been growing it for generations. In our research, we were surprised to find that it seems to be a prized bean of many families in the Nantahala Valley area. The plants produce numerous, relatively short runners (thus the name \"half-runner\"), and can produce many pounds of beans per plant. Pick often when beans are small, as they become tough if allowed to mature on the vine. 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It's a great cooking bean and excellent for drying into shuck beans which are also known as shucky beans, leather britches, and at times in the past, fodder beans. It comes in three colors: about 90% are white beans, about 6% are tan, and the remaining 4% are black. Keeping with family tradition, Bill has never tried to separate the beans, and also adds that some of the older people in his family thought that the black and brown beans were what they called \"pollinator beans.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSMALL FARM GROWN by Laughing Springs Farm, Boone, NC \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"- Beans -","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":6904812077098,"sku":"013-040-1-G","price":4.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2550\/8730\/products\/Bean_Pole_Berties_Best_CD.jpg?v=1607025012"},{"product_id":"pole-bean-margaret-best-greasy-organic","title":"Pole Bean Seeds - Margaret Best Greasy, ORGANIC","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"latin\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSold out for 2026\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"latin\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePhaseolus vulgaris\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eORGANIC. HEIRLOOM. Heirloom beans are widely named after family matriarchs, and this is a great example. The namesake of this bean is famous bean grower and seed saver Bill Best’s mother Margaret, and it lives up to the Best family legacy. This high yielding bean has short pods that are tightly packed with seeds in the traditional cut short style. Margaret Best raised five children, of whom Bill was the eldest. She tended several gardens on their small, self-sufficient farm, canned vegetables and meat, and made the children’s clothes out of cotton feed sacks. It was Margaret who instilled the love of beans in her eldest son Bill, and in 1963 started his collection by giving him some of her seeds, which she got from her mother, and from cousins and acquaintances she’d trade with at family reunions or church meetings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e14 gram packet contains a minimum of 60 seeds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSMALL FARM GROWN by Rodger's Heirlooms, Little Mountain, SC\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"- Beans -","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38008834031785,"sku":"013-035-1-G","price":4.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2550\/8730\/products\/Bean_Pole_Margaret_Best_CD_white.jpg?v=1578326458"},{"product_id":"pole-bean-cherokee-trail-of-tears","title":"Pole Bean Seeds - Cherokee Trail of Tears","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhaseolus vulgaris\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHEIRLOOM. The Cherokee Trail of Tears bean memorializes the forced relocation of the Cherokee Indians in the mid-nineteenth century. They carried this bean throughout this infamous walk, which became the death march for over four thousand Cherokees; hence the Trail of Tears. In the face of its poignantly dismal history, the shiny, jet-black seeds are used with pride in many traditional American Indian dishes. The seeds are encased in six-inch, greenish-purple pods. 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Fatman is a very heavy producer of tender and flavorful 5” pods on 6-7’ vines. There is a lot of documentation of this bean being grown for 100+ years in both Virginia and West Virginia where it remains popular to this day. The information is conflicting about which state it first originated in though. Extremely productive and is delicious as a snap bean, dried as a soup bean, and strung up for leather britches too. 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Beans are best for fresh eating when picked at about four inches in size. Vigorous vines will need a sturdy trellis. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e85 days to maturity. Avg. 50 seeds per 14 g packet. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSMALL FARM GROWN by Red Maude's Garden in \u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eSadieville, KY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"- Beans -","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38019890872489,"sku":"013-032-1-C","price":4.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2550\/8730\/products\/beans-3702999_1920.jpg?v=1609871261"},{"product_id":"pole-bean-seeds-golden-hull-cornfield","title":"Pole Bean Seeds - Golden Hull Cornfield","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhaseolus vulgaris\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHEIRLOOM. Golden Hull Cornfield bean has vigorous, seven to eight foot climbing vines that bear huge yellow-tinted pods. A tasty bean that is great for shelling or drying. 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HEIRLOOM.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eFortex Pole Beans produce long, slender, completely stringless French-style green beans abundantly on vigorous pole-habit plants. Beans are best harvested between seven and eleven inches. 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Vines can reach up to seven to nine feet long and trellising is a must. This bean comes from \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNellie Chernoff, who received this variety from a Russian woman, and grew the beans in Kamsack, Saskatchewan. In 1988 she passed the seeds on to her granddaughter Marge Mozelinkey, who has been growing them ever since and eventually passed the seed along to Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eDirect seed into the garden after all danger of frost has passed. Pole beans will need full sun and well-draining soil. Provide a trellis for these beans. Water well to ensure good germination. Once germinated, pole beans will need at least an inch of water per week. Consistently harvesting the pods will result in a long harvest window. 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