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Posted by jwahlton 9 (My Page) on Wed, Nov 4, 09 at 17:20
| Where to get butter beans? I'd love to grow these for my Mother. Is now the time to plant them? I remember picking them in the summer in North Carolina.
Julia |
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RE: Butter Beans?
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| This is the best place I know to find the seeds that you might have grown "way back yonder", and yes I'm a tarheel too. I checked, they have Jackson Wonder Butterbeans. Ummm...uhh! You're probably too late for this year if you are in 9a. Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
P.O. Box 460, Mineral, VA 23117
Phone 540-894-9480 Fax 540-894-9481 |
Here is a link that might be useful: SESE
RE: Butter Beans?
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| Julia, it is too late for zone 9 to plant butterbeans-lima There are a lot of sources selling them, depending what you want. I grew in the summer 2 different bush varieties, Henderson and Eastland. 
And I am harvesting now Black and Christmas lima beans 
Silvia |
RE: Butter Beans?
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| ooh--silvia, are those the same black limas you gave me? butter beans are just limas you picked too early... (the georgians among us just fainted dead away...) i like willow-leaf limas. very productive, very good flavor. drop me a line & i can send you some. |
RE: Butter Beans?
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| Yes Michael, those black limas are the same that I gave you. You would not believe how productive and delicious they are. Save the seeds, they are one of a kind and not for sale anywhere. They belonged to a very experienced farmer, he was farming since the 1940 and he said a lot of species are gone now. We have to preserve his seeds for the future, he belongs to a seed saver group for farmers. I am very honored to grow his black lima beans. Silvia |
RE: Butter Beans?
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| I'm in 9B I think (Kissimmee). So these are to be grown in the spring? I did get beans from someplace earlier in the year. The plants grew fine but no produce. I didn't thin them out so maybe that was the reason? I had no idea what to do! I just wanted to grow my Mom some speckeled butter beans. |
RE: Butter Beans?
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| I planted in May and in August. In May were the bush varieties, in August the pole type. I have some seed of the bush varieties Henderson and Eastland, if you want to try those. The pole varieties that I am growing Christmas and the black ones, I will be harvesting seed later on. You have a lot of time to become an expert till we get our next season. Here is some reading material for you. Silvia |
Here is a link that might be useful: butter beans
RE: Butter Beans?
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| i agree with silvia--plant when it starts to get consistently warm for limas; a little earlier for other beans, tho you risk some fungal issue if it turns cool and damp. i planted THREE willow-leaf limas and they covered TWO ten-foot trellises, completely, by the end of summer. it is a tremendously productive plant--kept us in limas all summer long. produces in big fits. don't bother, imho, with the bush beans. space hogs, limited productivity. they do produce earlier, but i ended up ripping mine out pretty early to make room for the willows. |
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| Michael, do you like favas? If so, which one is your favorite? Silvia |
RE: Butter Beans?
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| i love favas but haven't ever tried to grow them. i have some seeds from SESE i'm thinking of planting next spring. you? |
RE: Butter Beans?
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| Michael, I have Egyptian, Broad Windsor, and Fava Imperial Green Pod and will be planting them soon. And I have a couple more on my mind that I want to get. I will let you know if I find them... Silvia |
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