Days To Maturity
58
Mature Height
8 Feet
Sun / Shade
Full Sun
Kentucky Blue Garden Bean Seeds
Kentucky Blue Garden Bean Seeds
The best of Kentucky Wonder and Blue Lake
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Description / Kentucky Blue Garden Bean Seeds
Days to Maturity: 58 from direct sow
Pole Bean
All-America Selections (AAS) Winner 1991
Wondering whether to grow Kentucky Wonder or Blue Lake pole beans this year? Why not have both—in a single variety. Kentucky Blue is the cross of these two classic varieties, with the best characteristics of both. For gardeners who love pole beans, it's nothing short of a dream come true.
These enormous 8 to 9 inch pods are straight, smooth, and plump, with dark green stems and light strings. A treat in texture as well as taste, they arise very, very abundantly on vigorous vining 5 to 8 foot plants that stand up to bean mosaic virus beautifully and continue to bear all summer long. The combination of great flavor and big yields on easy-care plants earned Kentucky Blue an All-America Selections award.
Many gardeners prefer pole beans for their distinctive "beany" flavor. Because they use vertical space, they free up the horizontal rows in the vegetable garden for other varieties while bearing abundant harvests. They're easier than bush beans to harvest as well.
Direct sow the seeds after all danger of frost, and for longest harvest, keep sowing at 3-week intervals until late spring. For fall crops, begin in late summer and continue until a month or so before first frost date. Support the vines on a trellis, tower, or poles spaced 3 feet apart.
This season, consider growing a Three Sisters combination planting of beans, corn, and squash. This Native American planting uses the three plants to help one another grow and fruit their best: the corn provides a "pole" for the bean to climb, while the squash offers groundcover protection for the corn and bean roots. Kentucky Blue makes a great Three Sisters member.
Product Details
| SKU | 05032 |
|---|---|
| Genus | Phaseolus |
| Species | vulgaris |
| Variety | Kentucky Blue |
| Product Classification | Seeds, Vegetables |
| Sun / Shade | Full Sun |
| Habit | Vining |
| Days To Maturity | 58.00 |
| Harvest Season | Early Fall, Early Summer, Late Summer, Mid Summer |
| Resistance | Disease Resistant, Heat Tolerant, Humidity Tolerant |
| Characteristics | Award Winner, Direct Sow, Easy Care Plants, Edible, Soil Builder, Trellises |
| Uses | Beds, Cuisine, Outdoor, Vines and Climbers |
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Extremely pour germination rate 2 people found this helpfulPlanted two 7 ft rows seeds 3 inches apart. Got exactly 2 plants out of that. It can’t be user error when the other 5 types of beans all worked out. And had no problem with any other seed I bought from park seeds. Maybe the 2023-2024 lot is a bust.
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Great beans 2 people found this helpfulI have grown these Kentucky Blue Beans for more years than I can remember. We canned 80 quarts a couple of years back from one 45 ft row on a 6 ft high net. Gave away and ate a lot ,too. Everyone says they love them. I plant them just after I pull up the sweet corn plants. Very prolific beans. Never had any problems with them. This is the only pole bean I will grow.
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Dont buy, waste of time and money. 2 people found this helpfulI purchased these last year for this years growing season. So far I have planted at least 25 seeds twice, it has been a week and a half since last planting and I still only have 1 bean plant. I will be throwing these seeds in the trash and I dont like to do that. A complete waste of time. will now take additional time to order and receive new replacement seeds. dont bother buying these seeds - Kentucky Blue Pole Bean Seeds
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poor germination 1 people found this helpfulPlanted these seeds in the garden, at the same time we planted so Kentucky White Half runners near by. The seeds we go from Park seed only germinated about 50% even replanting was disappointing. The seed we got from our neighbor came on like gangbusters. Last time I will order these.
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Good Bean 0 people found this helpfulOne I always grow along with smeraldo, derby & soleil. This one does take the longest here in the sierra nevada northern ca, so with the different varieties I get great beans all summer & into early fall. For my growing season, I can't plant till middle-end of may & these usually don't start producing until end of august. Nice big pods that are very tasty.
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Really Stringless!! 0 people found this helpfulWanting a replacement for the 1/2 white runner bean we have planted for years we trialed 3 new green beans. Ky Blue was not only a good flavored bean, it was prolific and completely stringless.
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Kentucky Blue bears all summer! 0 people found this helpfulI have been planting Park's Kentucky Blue for more than five years. I continue to use it because it produces enormous numbers of tasty green beans all summer long in Central Minnesota. During the hottest of the summer, it may slow down a bit, but don't pull it out! Keep watering it, and it will resume blooming and bearing as cooler weather returns. Pole beans take up less space in a small yard and are easier to harvest from a trellis. Under excellent conditions, vines may exceed 8 feet.
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