Pole Bean Seeds
Fountain Pitts Allen Pole Bean
$5.00
A pole bean whose history & origin is a complete mystery to me! It’s a dry bean, and my seed donor doesn’t have much information about it. My guess is that this bean carries somebody’s family name. The good news is it’s such a fantastic bean that I’m not too concerned about its history. The bean seeds are really quite pelagic and marine inspired, deep blue-ish with grey speckles and reminiscent to me of a humpback whale. The vines are strong, healthy, vigorous and dry down fairly early. Production was really good too. Wonderful, if mysterious, variety. Rare. 2023 seed. Gratefully received from the wonderful collection of Mandy Botican, Tyndall, Manitoba.
Russell Crow –
I think Mandy probably got this bean from me. Because I got it from a source so obscure I don’t think many people had this bean that Mandy could have gotten it from. You can ask her what her source was. I got it from a young fellow in Guthrie, Kentucky by the name of Stephan Smith. This was in the fall of 2015 he sent me the bean. He claims to have bred the bean. A few years later about 2019 I met Stephan and his parents as we had breakfast at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Clarksville, Tennessee. His parents had been plant breeders for the Cargil Grain Company.
Tamara Clement –
Thanks for the info Russ! I had no idea that this was the background on that bean!