Flageolet is the name for a grouping of small kidney-shaped beans, just under ½ inch long.They get more specific names based on what colour their seed is: Flageolet blanc, Flageolet noir, Flageolet jaune, Flageolet rouge, and Flageolet vert. The most well-known is the white and green varieties, which actually range in colour from cream-coloured to…
Bush Beans
Golden Wax Beans
Golden Wax Beans are a bush-type bean that is ready to harvest 50 days after planting from seed. The 6 inch (15 cm) long pods are stringless, and flattened when harvested young enough to be used as a fresh-eating bean. The pods can be let to mature for harvesting as a dried bean. The beans…
Goldito Beans
Goldito Beans are stringless yellow wax beans, almost like French filet type beans. The pods are 4 ½ to 5 inches (12 to 13 cm) long. Goldito Beans are white inside. The plant is a bush type. It doesn’t produce overly high yields, but the beans grow in clumps, making them easy to gather.
Maxibel Beans
Maxibel Beans are long, slender, stringless green beans that grow on a bush-type bean plant. The pods are a filet type, dark green, and very slender, only about ¼ inch (½ cm) wide; 55 to 60 days from seed. They can be up to 7 inches (18 cm) long. Inside, Maxibel Beans are black. The…
Montpellier Beans
Montpellier Beans are a filet type green beans that grow on a bush-type bean plant. The pods are very straight, and will grow up to 6 inches (15 cm) long. They are best harvested when ¼ inch (½ cm) wide. Cooking Tips The green beans are best lightly steamed or lightly sautéed. History Notes Montpellier…
Provider Beans
Provider Beans grow on a bush-type bean plant that grows up to 18 inches (45 cm) tall, and delivers high yields. Provider Beans are grown as a green bean. It produces stringless, round pods that are 5 to 8 inches (13 to 20 cm) long, with purple beans inside; around 50 days from seed to…
Slenderette Beans
Slenderette Beans are filet-type green beans that grow on a bush-type bean plant. The plant grows up to 20 inches (50 cm) tall, and produces glossy, bright green pods up to 5 inches (13 cm) long; 50 to 60 days from seed.. The pods are stringless, hairless, straight, slim and round. The pods have very…