Specialty Beans
Pole Beans
Helda
This flat podded Romano type bean was widely available for a long time. Recently its more and more difficult to find good quality seeds of Helda. We started seed production of Helda and have a healthy stock available. Helda is a high yielding pole bean, need to be trellised and can be picked for a long time. Pods are 10” long and 1” wide smooth, stringless and early maturing. Helda can be grow outdoors but does well in greenhouse cultures as well.
Yard long Asian Beans
Liana
Liana is a true asian “Yard long“ Bean. Its origin came from a seed company in the Netherlands, Royal Sluis, who picked this variety up from the University of Wageningen (IVT). The IVT made this variety ‘Day Length Neutral’ and can be grown under any day length, making it suitable to grow for instance in greenhouses in the Netherlands. We recently picked up the seed production of Liana (see photo). The pods are 20 -23” long, very slender and crunchy and more dark green then any other yard long beans! It loves the heat and will thrive very well. Grow indoors and pick for a long time!
