There are many hundreds of varieties of pole beans. It's difficult to make a decision. In the following we give you an overview of popular pole beans as filet beans, wax beans and snip beans.
The seeds of dried boiled beans are often beautifully mottled and are kept dry
Fillet bean, wax bean, dry bean or cut bean?
Pole beans are called pole beans because they need a climbing aid (pole) to grow. They are so called because of their growth habit. The counterpart are bush beans, which grow like bushes and do not require climbing aids. Another way of categorizing beans is by their use. A distinction is made here, for example, between fillet or green beans, wax beans and snippet or string beans.
- Fillet beans or French beans: have no strings and are particularly tender
- Wax Beans or Butter: Yellowish-white, tender beans, often used in salads or for canning.
- Dry beans: Also called pearl beans. This species is mainly grown for the production of dried seeds, but the pods can also be cooked and eaten green.
- Snip beans, sword beans or string beans: Are cut into pieces, mostly used for soups and stews, become fibrous if they are harvested too late.
These individual types of beans cannot always be distinguished from one another. For example, there are threadless wax beans or dry beans, such as the Goldmarie variety, which is both a fillet bean and a wax bean.
Filet Beans The tastiest stringless runner beans
These runner beans have no strings:
- Blauhilde: violet pods, violet flowers, brown seeds, medium late
- Neckarkönigin: very popular, high-yielding variety, fleshy, tender, resistant to diseases and extreme weather
Wax Beans: Yellow pole bean varieties
- Anellino Giallo: Italian, stringless variety, late harvest, noble aromatic
- Goldmarie: very wide pods, very early variety, also tolerates cool weather, very aromatic and stringless!
Dry Cook Beans: Runner beans with colorful, large seeds
- Zebrina: purple-green speckled pods, cream-colored seeds with black speckles
- Borlotto Lingua di Fuoco: pods and seeds speckled with red and white, ripe pods turn white-purple
String beans: runner beans for stews
- Limka: broad sword bean, stringless and tender, medium early
- Helda: wide and long, very productive
tips
Do you want to support the native variety of seeds and contribute to their preservation? Then sow an old German or European runner bean variety. Here is an overview of the tastiest historical species.