DOLLOFF POLE BEAN

Phaseolus vulgaris

An old selection of the so-called “horticultural lima" perfectly adapted to the Northeast. Horticultural beans are favored for being remarkably delicious fresh shelling beans, and Dolloff is also among the most reliable dry beans in a short season. Fresh or dried the big flattened mottled beans have fantastic flavor and comforting meaty texture when cooked up.

Vines are not particularly substantial or vigorous and are best on a 5' trellis where they will have plenty of sun and air so that they may mature promptly and dry easily. Sown in early June they are typically dry enough for threshing by September. Shell for fresh beans just as the pods fill up and become striped and mottled with pink.

The infamous “horticultural lima" was listed by DM Ferry in 1893 as a “true cross between Dreer's Lima and Dwarf Horticultural", which is a bunch of hooey. The spontaneous intermingling of genes between Phaseolus vulgaris and Phaseolus lunatus is virtually impossible in the garden, but these beans were unique indeed and gardeners are not botanists and don't we all just want to grow peculiar food.

Packet contains at least 50 seeds.