This is a bush variety of dried bean. Each pod contains 5 large, red kidney shaped beans. If rain threatens before your beans are totally dry, pul...
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Great producer. Yumalicious on the flavor scale with purple splashed beans that are oval, large and contained in 5-6" pods. Much earlier than oth...
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However the story goes we do know that this bean has become a staple baking bean in many households throughout the world. Great Northen Shell bean ...
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Plants get 24" tall and is early for a dry bean. Good cool weather emergence. Delicious, great for soups.
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Plants reach 15-18" tall and are highly productive. Can be eaten in the green bean stage when young or allowed to dry for shell beans.
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harvest young as a green bean or allowed to dry. This bean has a unique sweet taste, fine quality and easy to shell. Vermont Cranberry is extreme...
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Shell/
Dry Bean Easy Tips
- You can eat many shell beans when pods are young. Just like snap beans.
- These are the true pioneer beans. Let beans dry on the plant and shell them for easy storage.
- Best to harvest beans when 90% of the leaves have fallen off the plant and they are dry.
- Pull the entire plant up by the roots and thresh.
- Bean threshing is easy in a burlap bag or clean trash can.
- Allow seeds to dry thoroughly before storing.
Varieties: Some of the many shell bean varieties are dwarf horticultural, red kidney, great northern white, soldier, pink, navy bean, yellow eye, pinto, orca, and Vermont cranberry.
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