This is an unusual variety with brilliant burgundy seeds and light violet flowers. Grown by the Jennings family in Campbell Co., Tennessee for many years. A prolific southern field pea type with creamy white seeds with little light brown eye. These seeds came originally from Tom Cabe farm on Turtle Pond. Source: From the garden of Hazel Killibrew, Highlands, NC. Plant two feet apart and expect beans until frost. A rampant grower and prolific producer, it should not be crowded in the row. This is a very tasty sieva pole butterbean type. Use dried black beans for soup and green snap beans for canning or fresh consumption.įrom the garden of Gene Griggs, Lugoff, SC. A vigorous vining snap bean, this variety should be trellised or planted among your corn for a living trellis.
This is another prolific producer with black seeds. Often seen strung like peppers on a string hanging on the porch, the beans were soaked in water overnight to reconstitute before cooking slowly for hours with a ham hock for flavoring. An excellent heirloom for fresh consumption, but in earlier times it was a favorite for drying as "leather breeches beans". This variety has a slick or "greasy" pod. Cut Short beans are said to have derived their name because the seeds grow so closely together in the pods that the seed ends are flattened or "cut short". White seeds can also be dried and stored for winter consumption. This is an excellent tender snap bean that is very prolific. Originally from the garden of Jim Knotts in Kentucky, this variety traveled and grew with Lee Sliman in Ohio and later in Oregon before coming to us. I use the fresh beans for consumption and the dried seeds for a colorful addition to my twelve bean soup mixture. I segregated these by color and grew them out only to find all three colors were produced from each plot. The name "Black Bean" here may be confusing when you see the three different colors of individual seeds black, brown or white in about equal proportions. James Wolf) Small-seeded willow leaf type butterbean with varying colors & mottling. Source: John Coykendall, Knoxville, TN (originally from Dr.
PKT (50 ) $2 Colored Willowleaf Butterbean Because okra readily cross pollinates, it should not be grown in close association with other okra varieties. This area is named after Native Americans indigenous to this area. As the name implies, it has been grown in the Choppee area of South Carolina near Georgetown. This okra has been maintained in the Jacobs family since the mid-1800's. Source: Anne Diedre Jacobs, Georgetown, SC. This climbing string bean doesn't have a trace of blue on it, but resembles recently developed string bean varieties with its white seeds and round pods. An aggressive vining type, this bean does well when grown in a cornfield or trellised. The shiny black seeds are the most distinctive feature about this variety. These snapbeans are believed to have originated in Germany. Usually harvested as dried peas for human consumption because they are too tedious to shell fresh. Tiny seed make excellent wild game food and may naturalize areas where they are broadcast and left unharvested. They are thought to have come to us from Africa with some of the early slaves.
This variety of southern cowpea has been grown along the coastal barrier islands since long before the Civil War. NOTE: PKT (-) indicates packet and (number of seed). If you have an heirloom variety of your own and would like to share it, write to: SCCIA, C/O SC Foundation Seed Assoc.,1162 Cherry Road, Clemson, SC 29634. Bradshaw's efforts to preserve these irreplaceable garden seeds. With the increased interest in heirloom varieties we are happy to assist Dr. Check our web page for updates on availability. Supplies for some varieties are very limited and we expect to sell out quickly. Bradshaw collected heirloom varieties for many years. Professor, researcher, speaker and avid gardener, Dr. David Bradshaw (Retired) Horticulture Dept., Clemson University.
We are very happy to offer seed of several non-hybrid vegetable varieties from the collection of Dr.
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