Sunday, May 24, 2009

Yardlong Bean

A variety of Yardlong bean [3 feet plus, white bean? Can't remember]


Do they get to be a yard long? Pretty close. I often see them at 30 inches or so.
Love the Florida summer. Maybe 60 days to flowering? I started these in March.

Prolific as hell. Two plants, about one week.
That's a regular sized dinner plate, sports fans.


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Yardlong beans for dinner
Yardlong beans for lunch
Covered in roast onion and tarragon pesto
I'll even have them for brunch

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Yardlong beans on the grill
Yardlong beans with tofu
Yardlong beans in stir fry
A lot of yardlong beans to go thru


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Florida. Summer.
Watching the yardlong beans grow
a sweet recompense


You can get seeds at Evergreen Seeds.
That's a lot of beans for $4.50 worth of seeds.

4 comments:

Alison said...

Holy cow! I've never seen green beans grow like that! Loved the poems too!

Kim Northrop said...

aren't they amazing? and thanks for your comments!

Robin@TheNatureCoast said...

they're even more incredible than the Daikon radishs! Sarasota = Brobdignag? What's next,house cats the size of Florida panthers? Happy gardening, will post more pix from here soon, photosynthesis happens!

Kim Northrop said...

The kittehs are rather large. Wait until you see the boniato :)