[Market-farming] yellow wax bean

Road's End Farm organic87 at frontiernet.net
Tue Jun 9 21:36:58 EDT 2009


On Jun 9, 2009, at 3:12 PM, cjmaness at juno.com wrote:

> No one around here has eaten yellow beans.I've asked neighbors, 
> friends, relatives and they all say no way! We have the one customer 
> who specifically asked us to grow them, saying he couldn't find them 
> anywhere.
>
Maybe he's from around here? They're fairly common in this area; I 
started growing them because people often asked for them at the market, 
and they sell fairly well.

You could really astonish your customers and add some purple beans to 
the mix. The purple ones all magically turn into green beans when/if 
you cook them. (Yellow beans stay yellow.)


On Jun 9, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Ken Bezilla wrote:

>  A note about yellow wax beans = they're best for early-mid plantings; 
> late plantings aren't good for selling -- the cold weather blemishes 
> that beans get show up ever much more so on the light-colored beans...
>
> Ken Bezilla
> Acorn
> central VA

Not sure how late you mean. I put yellow wax beans in my plantings 
right up to the ones timed to mature shortly before frost -- as long as 
they don't freeze they seem fine, and if they freeze they die, but so 
do the green ones.

The trouble I have with them is on the other end of the season: the 
varieties I've tried don't have good cold soil germination, and often 
don't come up in the first planting if the soil hasn't warmed up well. 
Of course I'm using untreated seed, which might make a difference 
there.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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