Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings | 2019
Beans
Abstract
Common green-podded varieties include Contender, Provider, Strike, Tendercrop, and Blue Lake types. Yellow varieties include Resistant Cherokee Wax, Goldrush, Sungold, Kinghorn Wax, Majestic, and Goldcrop. Pole-type green beans include Kentucky Wonder and McCaslan. Broad flat-podded green beans are often called Italian or romano beans, and varieties include Roma, Greencrop, and Bush Romano. Lima beans are difficult to grow in Kansas because they require a longer period to develop and tend to drop blossoms in hot dry weather. Choose an early variety such as Baby Bush, Fordhook, Henderson, Thorogreen, or a similar early maturing variety. Other types of beans grown primarily for their seeds include French horticultural types, cranberry, pinto, great northern, red kidney and similar varieties.