Produces large, long, dry pods for versatile cooking
Self-pollinating for easier seed saving and reduced pests
Edible young pods for fresh eating and mature beans for dried dishes
Requires sturdy support for sprawling vines
Heirloom variety with historical significance
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Beautiful, purple-frosted dry bean grows on 7-8 foot vines, in 7-8” long pods. Young, small pods are great as tender green beans, and when mature and dry they have large, long pods with fat, meaty beans for cooking.
In his book “Heirloom Vegetable Gardening”, William Woys Weaver shares: [Ohio Pole Bean] “was grown during the 1790s by the