Blue Lake Superior Garden Bean Seed

Days to Maturity: 63

Blue Lake Superior is an improved variety of blue lake bean. Blue Lake Superior has the same great flavor and texture that have made Blue Lake 274 a classic favorite for many years, but it has enhanced characteristics, such as higher yields of more uniform and refined pods, a better disease package, and a superior plant architecture with less flopping.

Blue Lake Superior is a bush bean, also called bunch beans, that sets very straight and plump dark green pods—about 5½ to 6 inches long—with tender white seeds.

A Phaseolus vulgaris variety, Blue Lake Superior is an herbaceous tender annual in the Legume family. A determinate variety, it grows as a low, compact, self-supporting bush that's suitable for containers and window boxes. A prolific plant, Blue Lake Superior produces a huge yield that holds well, ensuring a large, one-time crop. For a continual, season-long harvest, succession plant every two weeks.

Blue Lake Superior garden bean is easy to grow and adapts to almost any region. A shallow-rooted plant, it grows best in a sunny location with moist, fertile, organically rich, freely draining loams. Like all legumes, Blue Lake Superior is a nitrogen-fixer in the soil. After the final harvest is in, chop up the plant and work it back into the soil to improve the quality of your soil for the next growing season.

For tips on growing all types of beans—from snap and green beans to shelling and dry beans—explore our Know Before You Grow: Beans guide. It has everything you need to cultivate a healthy and productive bean crop from seed. Plus, check out the top Apps to Help You Grow and Answer Gardening Questions to make your bean-growing journey even easier.