Beans
Pole Beans
LONG GREEN CHINESE
Produces long green beans that can be eaten either fresh and are also good for freezing. The dried white beans are also very tasty. Very productive.
Germination rate 95%. An All CV Seed Bank 2015 winner.
Claire's Portuguese green
Produces a green bean with a pinkish pod that can be eaten either fresh or dried. Also good for freezing. The bean is normally harvested when the bean seed is slightly swollen so that you eat the pod and bean at the same time.
Germination rate > 85%. CV Seed Bank 2021 test candidate.
bush Beans
EARLY PINKIES
Can be eaten fresh or dried, also good for freezing. The pods have a pink pattern which becomes completely green when cooked. The bean produces earlier than most bush beans and was developed in the Comox Valley. .
Germination rate 99%. All Comox Valley Winner in 2020
BLACK TURTLE
Small sized dried bean. Great refried or in soups.
Germination rate > 80%.
PROVIDER
This heirloom is a high-yielding and early producing, stringless, straight bean that is good fresh or frozen.
Germination rate 100%. All Comox Valley Winning Green Bush Bean in 2018.
yellow rocdor
This french heirloom is a stringless, straight yellow bean that is good fresh or frozen.
Germination rate 95%. All Comox Valley Winning Yellow Bush Bean in 2019.
runner Beans
Scarlet and Emperor
Seed Bank runner bean. A heritage bean that is good fresh when pods are young or as a dried bean.
Germination rate 93%.