Help Me Pick!

Aerial · December 29, 2015

I'm perusing the E&R seed catalog trying to decide what to order but don't know much about beans. I'd like beans for fresh eating, and not your typical "every one has grown it" varieties. Help me pick?

-- Green Pod Bush Beans --
1. Advantage
2. Black Valentine
3. Blush Lake Bush #156
4. Bush Lake Bush #274
5. Burpee Stringless
6. Bush Romano #14
7. Commodore Improved
8. Contender
9. Dwarf Hort Taylor
10. Ferrari
11. French Garden
12. French Horticulture
13. Furano (Roma)
14. Jade
15. Jade II
16. Kentucky Wonder 125
17. Kentucky Wonder Bush
18. Landreth Stringless
19. Momentum
20. Prevail
21. Provider
22. Red Swan
23. Roma II
24. Roma Improved Bush
25. Slenderette
26. Spartan Arrow
27. Strike
28. Tendercrop
29. Tenderette
30. Tenderette Imp
31. Tenderpod
32. Tennessee Green Pod
33. Top Crop
34. Valentino

-- Runner Beans --
35. Red Peanut (Pink Hlf Rnr)
36. Scarlet Runner
37. Spartan Half Runner
38. State Half Runner
39. Tenessee Half Runner
40. White Emergo
41. White Half Runner

-- Purple Pod Beans --
42. Royal Burgundy
43. Purple Pod Pole
44. Royalty Purple Pod

-- Pole Beans - Green --
45. Blue Lake Pole FM1K
46. Kentucky Blue
47. Kentucky Wonder Pole
48. Missouri Wonder Pole
49. Oriental Wonder
50. Rattlesnake
51. Romano Pole
52. White Kentucky 191

-- Yellow Pod Wax Beans --
53. Brittle Wax
54. Carson
55. Cherokee Wax
56. Dragon Tongue
57. Eureka
58. Goldcrop
59. Golden Butterwax
60. Golden Wax Imp (Top Notch)
61. Gold Rush
62. Kentucky Wonder Wax Pole
63. Pencil Pod

-- Lima Beans - Bush & Pole
64. Bridgeton
65. Broad Windsor Fava
66. Burpee Imp. Lima
67. Eastland
68. Fordhook 242
69. Henderson Bush
70. Jackson Wonder
71. Christmas Lg Speckled - Pole
72. Florida Butter Speckled - Pole
73. King of the Garden - Pole
74. Thorogreen - Bush
75. White Dixie Butter Pea - Bush

-- Soup Beans --
76. Black Turtle
77. Calypso
78. Dark Red Kidney
79. Etna
80. Great Northern
81. Jacob's Cattle
82. Light Red Kidney
83. Marrow Fat (White)
84. Navy (Fleetwood)
85. Pinto
86. Small Red
87. Soldier
88. Vermont Cranberry
89. Ying Yang

December 29, 2015	#1
Aerial Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: CA Posts: 410	Help Me Pick! I'm perusing the E&R seed catalog trying to decide what to order but don't know much about beans. I'd like beans for fresh eating, and not your typical "every one has grown it" varieties. Help me pick? -- Green Pod Bush Beans -- 1. Advantage 2. Black Valentine 3. Blush Lake Bush #156 4. Bush Lake Bush #274 5. Burpee Stringless 6. Bush Romano #14 7. Commodore Improved 8. Contender 9. Dwarf Hort Taylor 10. Ferrari 11. French Garden 12. French Horticulture 13. Furano (Roma) 14. Jade 15. Jade II 16. Kentucky Wonder 125 17. Kentucky Wonder Bush 18. Landreth Stringless 19. Momentum 20. Prevail 21. Provider 22. Red Swan 23. Roma II 24. Roma Improved Bush 25. Slenderette 26. Spartan Arrow 27. Strike 28. Tendercrop 29. Tenderette 30. Tenderette Imp 31. Tenderpod 32. Tennessee Green Pod 33. Top Crop 34. Valentino -- Runner Beans -- 35. Red Peanut (Pink Hlf Rnr) 36. Scarlet Runner 37. Spartan Half Runner 38. State Half Runner 39. Tenessee Half Runner 40. White Emergo 41. White Half Runner -- Purple Pod Beans -- 42. Royal Burgundy 43. Purple Pod Pole 44. Royalty Purple Pod -- Pole Beans - Green -- 45. Blue Lake Pole FM1K 46. Kentucky Blue 47. Kentucky Wonder Pole 48. Missouri Wonder Pole 49. Oriental Wonder 50. Rattlesnake 51. Romano Pole 52. White Kentucky 191 -- Yellow Pod Wax Beans -- 53. Brittle Wax 54. Carson 55. Cherokee Wax 56. Dragon Tongue 57. Eureka 58. Goldcrop 59. Golden Butterwax 60. Golden Wax Imp (Top Notch) 61. Gold Rush 62. Kentucky Wonder Wax Pole 63. Pencil Pod -- Lima Beans - Bush & Pole 64. Bridgeton 65. Broad Windsor Fava 66. Burpee Imp. Lima 67. Eastland 68. Fordhook 242 69. Henderson Bush 70. Jackson Wonder 71. Christmas Lg Speckled - Pole 72. Florida Butter Speckled - Pole 73. King of the Garden - Pole 74. Thorogreen - Bush 75. White Dixie Butter Pea - Bush -- Soup Beans -- 76. Black Turtle 77. Calypso 78. Dark Red Kidney 79. Etna 80. Great Northern 81. Jacob's Cattle 82. Light Red Kidney 83. Marrow Fat (White) 84. Navy (Fleetwood) 85. Pinto 86. Small Red 87. Soldier 88. Vermont Cranberry 89. Ying Yang Last edited by Aerial; December 30, 2015 at 04:50 PM.