Pole Bean, Snap Bean, String, Green, or French Bean 'Kentucky Wonder'

This is the first year I have planted beans, and although my bush beans have outproduced and outgrown these, they are finally blooming an...Read Mored have produced a dozen or so beans. I just can't seem to leave them alone long enough to get a pot's-worth to cook, I tend to pick them when I'm watering and eat them raw in the garden. Very very tasty!

The old standby of pole beans. It was listed as a standard in the 1888 Burpees catalog with an alternate name of Southern Prolific so I h...Read Moreave no idea of its origen. It is a string bean, but retains its eating qualities when "beany". For me, the vine go 8-10 feet with 9 -10 inch pods. In my Grandmother's time it was widely used as a dried snap bean (leather britches or breeches depending on which side of the mountain you happened to be living). It is best when cooked southern style i.e. simmered in an iron kettle on the back of a wood range and seasoned with ham hocks or cured side meat and "new" Irish potatoes.

I really like this variety and always plant several rows of it in my garden. The vines are strong and vigorous with large yields of tend...Read Moreer, tasty beans.

Easy to grow and abundant yields.A wonderful beany taste that surpasses the slick,uniform hybrid stuff.They make great snaps and the more...Read More mature ones are yummy 'shelly' beans.Plants grow thick and lush.As long as beans are harvested,new blooms will produce more beans.

Makes a good snap bean when young and is string-less. But, as the it matures, it does have a strings and is good for shell beans. Its a g...Read Moreood canning and freezing bean. The beans are from 7-9 inches long. Has a high yield. It is believed this was first offered around 1864, as the 'Texas Pole', then in 1877 changed to 'Kentucky Wonder' by James J.H. Gregory & Sons.