Seed Savers Exchange - Climbing French Bean

• Excellent for fresh eating
• Snap bean
• Lilac flowers
• Pole habit
• 65-75 days
• 50 seeds per packet

The beans of this historic variety are excellent for fresh eating—especially when picked young and tender—and its vines bear beautiful lilac flowers. Sweet and flavorful off the vine (kids love them!), the snappy, green 4-7" pods cradle shiny, dark-purple seeds when mature. Ever popular, it was once the most widely grown French climbing bean in England, according to The Beans of New York (1931). Pole habit, snap, 65-75 days.