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Beans
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Recommended Bean Varieties|
6-7" • 75 days • Green • 7' tall • Pole
This 7-foot tall variety produces flavorful pods that are tender, meaty, and very flavorful. A canning and freezing favorite. High yielding.
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5-8" • 50 days • Green • Bush
Classic high-yielding bean with juicy 5 1/2” round pods. Disease-resistant Provider is more tolerant of cold weather than other beans. Delicious fresh and ideal for canning and freezing.
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4" • 53 days • Green • 22-26" tall • Bush
A baby French/filet bean, tolerates hot and cold temperatures better, and displays superior resistance to foliar disease.
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5" • 55 days • Green • 3-9' tall • Pole
An extra refined filet type. Yields stringless green beans with a tender texture and delicate, floral, sweet flavor.
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8" • 75-80 days • Green and purple • 10' • Pole
Dark green pods with distinctive purple streaks. Very tasty when young & tender, but can be canned, frozen, or dried on the vine.
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16-20" • 59 days • Burgundy • 8' tall • Pole
Beans are borne in clusters of up to four beans each. Sweet flavor. Burgundy color will fade when cooked.
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6-9" • 75-80 days • Green • Organic • Pole
This vigorous grower produces meaty, flat pods that are sweet and delicious. The space-saving, climbing plants are robust growers.
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Peas
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Recommended Pea Varieties|
4-5" • 30 days • Green • 40" tall • Vining
This incredibly early variety starts producing in just a few short weeks and continues for an extended season.
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4" • 70 days • Green • 30" tall • Vining
Easy to grow, non-climbing vine. A prolific producer of mild-flavored broad pods. Highly disease resistant.
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3" • 58 days • Green • 5' tall • Vining
Improved variety with plumper pods earlier in the season, remarkably higher yields and far better disease resistance.
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Catalog photo credits: UC Master Gardeners—1P. Dimas, 2P. Joki, 3D. Laner, 4T. Loftus, 5G. Myers, 6S. Wentz, 7S. Wood, 8C. Yip, 9Unknown UC Master Gardener of Alameda County.