Bean Runner Takamatua Black Seeded | Members Only Preservation Pack

$4.90

Availability: members only, 2 per person

FAMILY: FABACEAE
GENUS: Phaseolus SPECIES: coccineus

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Description

Heritage Status: New Zealand
Bio-Region of Origin: Kōanga since 1996
Number of Seeds: 15

Description: Runner, green snap, shellout, dry bean. This runner bean has come to us from the South of the South Island. With perennial roots, like other runners, it’ll keep on coming up year after year. We have heard it was common to have them growing for over 50 years. The beans are very tasty and the seeds are shiny and black. It came to New Zealand originally with Henry Harrington’s descendants, the De Malmanche family, one of the original French families who settled that area in the 19th Century. It can be eaten when young as a green snap bean, they are very tasty, or as a shellout or dried bean as well. Great multipurpose bean!

Planting Instructions: Direct sow in Spring or plant into trays to avoid bird and slug damage. Plant into deeply prepared beds 20cm apart and pinch tops out at 30cm above ground for maximum production. Prefers to grow with roots in a cool moist environment. Beans stop setting if too hot or dry.