Vegetables
Heredity: Open Pollinated
History: Originally received by David Pendergrass (New Hope Seed Co.) in 2002 from Keith Brown who had inherited the variety from his Uncle Steve Messina.

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Vine
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Uses: Vegetable
Edible Parts: Fruit
Eating Methods: Raw
Cooked
Dynamic Accumulator: Nitrogen fixer
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Sow in situ
Pollinators: Bees

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Common names
  • Pole Bean
  • Common Bean

Photo Gallery
Location: Bon Aqua, TN
Date: 2003
Uncle Steve's (Messina) Italian Pole Beans Beautiful, half moon s

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