'Maggie x Provider' Bush Bean Breeding Mix

Phaseolus vulgaris Origin: Western North Carolina Improvement status: Breeding population Seeds per packet: ~35 Germination tested 08/2024: 97% Life cycle: Annual Another magical project from our dear friends at the Utopian Seed Project in western North Carolina. Here's what project founder Chris Smith has to say about these beautiful beans: "'Maggie Flowers' is a pink-seeded, pink-podded heirloom bush bean that produces bunches of extremely early (~40 days) and prolific green beans, which mature to baby pink and purple. The green beans are good, the shelling beans are good, and the dried beans are good too! This is an old-fashioned stringed bean. 'Provider' is a very well-known purple-seeded bush bean that is also early (~42 days) and prolific. But it's a stringless bean. Yanna Fishman, board member of The Utopian Seed Project and longtime seed saver, grows both beans pretty close to each other and started noticing some crossing between the two varieties. She passed these seeds to The