Bean Climbing 'Portuguese Butter'
Bean Climbing 'Portuguese Butter' is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
This heirloom romano butter bean was introduced to us by John H, who has grown it for many years. He told us it is a traditional bean grown in Portugal. The 2 cm wide, yellow flattened pods are 15 cm long and stand out against the deep green foliage, making them very easy to see and harvest. The young fresh beans are tasty, very fleshy and stringless. Once the beans are more mature, filling out with the bean seeds but still have yellow pods, it is traditionally eaten as a tender and delicious shelled bean. When mature the dried pods contain beautiful purple and cream mottled seeds to use as a dried bean. Days to harvest: 75.
Product: Bean Climbing 'Portuguese Butter'
Product type: SEED (15)
Botanical name: Phaseolus vulgaris
An heirloom Portuguese romano butter bean with yellow, 2cm wide, yellow flattened pods, 15cm long. The young fresh beans are tasty, very fleshy and stringless. Once the beans are more mature, filling out with the bean seeds but still have yellow pods, it is traditionally eaten as a tender and delicious shelled bean. When mature the dried pods contain beautiful purple and cream mottled seeds to use as a dried bean.
Plant type: Annual climbing bean
Plant height: Grows to 2 - 3 m; requires a trellis
Sow when: Beans are frost tender; germinate best at 18 - 25°C; seed will rot in cold, wet soil
Temperate: Spring to early summer
Subtropical: All year if frost-free; avoid Dec-Jan
Tropical: Unsuitable
Germination: 4 - 10 days
Depth: 2 - 4 cm deep
Position: Full sun
Sow where: Direct into garden bed
Soil type: Fertile, well drained, pH 6.2 - 7
Details: Hill plants, up to 10 cm deep, to protect from wind damage; water well once after sowing seed and then do not water again until seedlings appear
Harvest: 75 days: pick daily, early in the morning for the best flavour
15 seeds per packet
Phaseolus vulgaris
Annual climbing bean
Bean Climbing 'Portuguese Butter'
This heirloom romano butter bean was introduced to us by John H, who has grown it for many years. He told us it is a traditional bean grown in Portugal. The 2 cm wide, yellow flattened pods are 15 cm long and stand out against the deep green foliage, making them very easy to see and harvest. The young fresh beans are tasty, very fleshy and stringless. Once the beans are more mature, filling out with the bean seeds but still have yellow pods, it is traditionally eaten as a tender and delicious shelled bean. When mature the dried pods contain beautiful purple and cream mottled seeds to use as a dried bean. Days to harvest: 75.