Dragon’s tongue bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, is a bush wax bean that produces up to 8 inch pods with a pretty purple and green splotched pod. These beans also known as Merveille de Piemonte. The bean pods are a creamy yellow color when young and turn …
The black valentine bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, is a snap or dry bean that produces a 6 inch pod green bean with black seeds. This bush bean grows like a pole if trained to grow like one, and tolerates cooler temperatures. Growing Black Valentine Bean Sow …
The rattlesnake bean, also known as the Preacher bean, (Phaseolus vulgaris) is an heirloom pole bean that produces seeds with colored markings that resemble a rattlesnake design. The vine grows to 10 feet, and is drought resistant. Growing Rattlesnake Beans Sow the seeds directly into …
Don’t be confused by trying to tell a butter bean and a lima bean apart because they are the same bean, Phaseolus lunatus. Lima beans go by many names: butterbean, butter bean, butterpea, and sieva bean. These beans may be known by different names depending on the …
There are three types of edible peas: shelling peas, snow peas, and snap peas. They all have the same sort of shape and are all planted in the same ways, but are very different vegetables. Each have their unique things to love about them. Shelling …
Sugar snap peas, or simply snap peas, are a fairly recent vegetable crop. It was developed in 1952 as a cross between the shell pea and a snow pea. The cross began as a way to improve the pea but resulted in a brand new …
Snow peas are a variety of garden peas with thin walls and very small pea fruit inside. The pods are flat but completely edible, unlike shelling peas which are too fibrous. The stems and leaves of the young plant are edible, too. Like all peas, …
Garden shelling peas are an annual vegetable than grow on a vine. These peas go by peas, shelling peas, English peas, and garden peas. The edible green pod fruit are contained in a slightly curved pod of the same color. Unlike its relatives the …