Description
50 Seeds per pack
(Phaseolus vulgaris) 60 day. Snap Bean Widely adapted upright bush bean holds pods above the ground and produces 7″ long straight round pods with a distinctive dark green color. Jade is a great snap bean for roadside markets and home gardens with that excellent “Blue Lake” flavor. Gardeners have been known to call it the “energizer” bean, it just keeps going, and going, and going. Has disease resistance to common mosaic BV, NY, Curly Top Virus, and Rust tolerance. Seeds are white with light green tint.
Planting Instructions for Jade Bean Seeds
Sow Heirloom / Open Pollinated beans 1-2″ deep, 2-6″ apart, in rows 18-36″ apart, in full sun after danger of frost. Soaking bean seeds in water 1-2 hours before planting speeds germination. Germination occurs in 4-16 days in soil 60-85°F. Provide support for heirloom pole bean varieties. For heirloom snap beans, harvest when beans are 3-6″ long. For dry beans, leave pods on plants until pods are dry, brown, and crisp, and beans are hard and rattle in pod, if more drying is needed when danger of frost has arrived, pick pods or pull entire plant and hang upside down to dry further.
Katcha (verified owner) –
This variety has grown better for us than any other green bean.
Joyce D’Agostino (verified owner) –
Just planted some, they came right up. Fresh seeds and look forward to a nice harvest!
Thomas Sapp (verified owner) –
Again one of my favorites, great taste fresh or canned
Marianne (verified owner) –
Great!
J H. (verified owner) –
I like this snap bean a lot.
Stephanie (verified owner) –
The plant that grew produced a lot of beans and they were delicious! I think a critter ate the seeds before they could sprout.
Sally (verified owner) –
Sam (verified owner) –
Katcha –
These grew and produced very well for us when other varieties didn’t (side by side). They tolerated heat and (our) more alkaline soil. We have been growing them and saving seeds for at least 5 years. The taste is nice and the bean tender, but while it does freeze well, the taste after freezing isn’t as a true a green bean flavor and the texture is softer.