Grandma Gina’s Pole Bean Seeds

One of the most popular beans I offer!  Its enormous pods are utterly striking and are perhaps the largest Italian beans I’ve grown.  The bean is named after “Grandma Gina Lami,” a woman from Palagano, Italy who brought the bean seeds with her when she emigrated to the United States in the early 1900s with her husband Rugero Lami.  Gina and Rugero settled in Pennsylvania, growing these beans year after year.   After Grandma Gina passed, her granddaughters found her preserved bean seeds in the kitchen and continued to grow and save them, passing the seeds on within the family for decades.  Delicious giant pods, with a sweet history.  Such great luck that the family decided to keep the bean going and share it with other gardeners!  Here is a great article about it, the mention of the ‘sold out’ seed vendor was me!  15 Large Seeds/packet  Gratefully received from Artur Kobylecki of Kielce, Poland.

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