Pois Fèves Laliberté bean
$4.00
(Phaseolus vulgaris)
Tiny bushes look like a normal bean plant with shortened stems. This is an American-type “pea bean” (sometimes also called a “French navy bean”): round, pale yellow beans could easily be mistaken for a pea or soy bean. However if you look very closely you will see they are covered by a delicate tracery of veins, which is distinctively different from either of those species. Beautiful. An heirloom variety from Quebec, once grown by a Monsieur Laliberté of Lothbinière, hence the name. 100 days to maturity. 30 seeds/packet.
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Plant after last frost; soil must be warm or seed will rot. Sow 1” deep. Space bush beans 3” apart in rows 18″ apart. Harvest dry beans when pods are fully dry; seed must be dry enough to not dent with a fingernail for storage. Dry beans can be further dried on a tarp, then threshed by dancing on them and winnowing away the chaff.