True Red Cranberry Pole Bean - Organic
(102 days) Open-pollinated. Pole bean. Although one of the very best baking beans, TRC can be a difficult crop to mature, especially finicky in cool moist seasons. Garden writer Michele Owen, author of Grow the Good Life. says, “I love chili and True Red Cranberry beans cook up creamy without disintegrating with a richer flavor than any other red bean I’ve ever tasted.” Inspired by a description of “Red Cranberry” in a 1700s gardening encyclopedia, legendary bean collector John Withee, after an 11-year search, finally obtained it from Mr. Taylor of Steep Falls, Maine. The plump round maroon seeds without streaking look like Thanksgiving cranberries, unlike the speckled oval bush cranberry types. One of our oldest varieties, probably Native American, True Red Cranberry is listed on Slow Food’s Ark of Taste. Soak seeds for 24 hours to aid germination. Indigenous Royalties. ①to start or resume an order