The Purple Queen Bean is one of the best purple podded, stringless bean varieties available for your garden. This lovely bean variety features an abundance of 5 to 5.5 inch slender pods of a royal burgundy to intense purple color that turn a brilliant jade green color when cooked. The pods are produced on a lovely, upright, bush type bean plant. Due to their color, they are very easy to harvest which prevents the typical waste of other varieties where green pods are easily lost amongst green foliage. The Purple Queen Bean is exceptionally hardy, very disease resistant and are easy to grow. This wonderful bean variety is ideal for northern climates as it has no problem germinating in cool, wet soil. Purple Queen is an exceptional producer! Use Purple Queen Beans either cooked as snap green beans or alternatively raw in salads. Purple Queen Beans are resistant to bean beetles and tolerates BCMV. Purple Queen Beans can be utilized fresh or are also excellent for canning or freezing.  Matures in 50 to 55 days.

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The Blue Lake Bush Bush Bean (also known as the Blue Lake #274 Bean) is a bush version of the famous Blue Lake Pole Bean that is hands down, historically, the best Pole Bean ever offered anywhere in the world. Having originally been introduced by the Asgrow Company in 1962, Blue Lake #274 combined the great flavor and production of the original Blue Lake Bean on an easy to manage, upright bush-type plant of 15 to 18 inches in height. There has been no looking back ever since, for the Blue Lake Bush Bean (or Blue Lake #274 Bean) quickly became the most widely grown bush bean variety in the United States and has remained so for over 35 years! 

The Blue Lake Bush Bean (or Blue Lake #274 Bean) features a lush, green upright bush type plant that produces an abundance of old fashioned 5 to 5.5 inch long green, stringless pods. The pods possess an exceptional, sweet flavor like green beans are meant to have. When cooked, the meaty, white seeded bean pods retain their firmness. Unlike other bush bean varieties, Blue Lake Bush Beans retain their tenderness over a long period. If harvested regularly, the Blue Lake Bush Bean will continue to yield a heavy crop over the entire season. 

This wonderful bush bean variety is a must for every garden and is resistant to Bean Mosaic virus and adapts to a wide range of climates.

Although this variety, like all other bush beans are best used fresh, the "green beans" of this variety are exceptional for storage, either canned or frozen. In fact, this variety was once the dominant canning bean on the market! Matures in 50 to 60 days.
 

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The Contender Bush Bean is the earliest stringless green bean on the market and is ideal for cool, short season climates. As it matures in only 40 to 50 days, you simply cannot find an earlier bush bean for your bean patch! Despite its suitability for cold climates, Contender is also an excellent choice for hot climates! This wonderful snap bush bean produces a large quantity of tasty, medium green colored, 6 inch long, slightly curved bean pods that can be utilized cooked, raw, canned or frozen. The pods are produced on sturdy 12 to 20 inch, bush type bean plants. 

The Contender Bush Bean is resistant to heat ,  Bean Mosaic Virus and Powdery Mildew, making this one of the best green beans for your garden

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The Black Turtle Bean, also known as Black Beans, Turtle Beans, Black Spanish Beans, Tampico Beans, and Venezuelan Beans are becoming more and more popular every year, in part due to immigration from Latin American countries where the Black Turtle Bean is so widely used in soups, stews, sauces, for sprouts and much more. Black Turtle Beans are used dried, which was originally due to the fact they could be stored for up to a year and provided a good source of protein in the winter months back in the old days. As Black Turtle Beans are originally native to South America (and were introduced to the United States in the late 1700's), they require a long, warm season to perform well.

The plant of the Black Turtle Bean is a hardy bush-type plant that is very disease resistant and handles drought and heat very well.

The beans themselves are small (about the size of the common Garden Pea), of an oval shape and have a very beautiful, jet-black coloration with a cream colored interior with a sweet., earthy taste. 

Mature in 90 to 120 days.

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The Pencil Pod Black Wax Bean was originally introduced to the gardening public in 1900. Presumably, this lovely Wax Bean arose by crossing the Improved Black Wax Bean and the Black Eyed Wax Bean some years earlier. Ever since its introduction 104 years ago, this has been the dominant Wax Bean variety grown in America. The Black Pencil Pod Wax Bean features a dwarf, upright bush type plant that reaches 14 to 16 inches in height.  This lovely wax bean variety is a very dependable early producer of a large number of stringless, curved  yellow pods that reach 5.5 to 6 inches in length that contain lovely black bean seeds. The pods snap easily and due to their brilliant yellow color, make for something different in the way of snap beans, which can be used fresh or canned. The variety is an excellent choice for freezing. As a very heavy, long season yielder, the Black Pencil Pod Wax Bean is one of the best choices in the way of wax beans for your garden. Germinates well in cold soils and is also very resistant to heat! Matures in only 50 days.

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The Roma II Green Bean is a bush type, Italian Romano bean that produces a delicious crop of wide, light green flavorful pods. Its nutritious pods are slow to develop fiber and seeds which gives its 5 inch long pods a better texture when used as snap beans than other bean varieties. The Roma II Green Bean is extremely productive, easy to grow and very easy to harvest due to its upright bushy growth habit.

Matures in 59 days.

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First introduced in the 1850's, this heirloom Bush Bean is a very prolific producer. Produces dark green 6 inch pods with a stunning, unique flavor that make ideal snap beans. This variety can also be used as a dry soup bean. 70 days to maturity. 

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The Cherokee Wax Bean is a 1948 All-America Selections winning Wax Bean that was believed to have been originally handed down by the Cherokee Indians. This variety is supposedly originally indigneous to South and Central America and is said to have been cultivated as early as 500 BC. Tasty, stringless, 6" pods are light yellow in color and straight. Upright plants are productive even in adverse weather. 48 days to maturity. 

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The Dark Red Kidney Bean is the famous dry bean that is used in Chili Con Carne and various other well known dishes. This variety is also known as the Red Bean, which sometimes causes confusion between it and the Adzuki Bean. The Red Kidney is a medium sized variety of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) and features a dark red shell with a cream colored flesh. Its popularity can be attributed to its excellent flavor and many uses.

Dark Red Kidney Beans are a bush variety which are produced on a sturdy plant which yields an abundance of hearty pods that contain five large red, kidney shaped beans.

Kidney Beans may be dried or canned, but either way, great care must be taken to boil Kidney Beans for at least 10 minutes before consume them. Kidney Beans contain a toxic compund called lectin phytohaemagglutinin which can cause severe stomach upset if the beans are eaten raw. Boiling degrades this compound.

Matures in 95 days.

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