Yin Yang Bean 25 Seeds -Add A Little Zen to your Garden Free Shipping
This rare heirloom bean has survived many hardships. It is half-white and half-black with distinctive sharp boundaries that curve around the bean. Blends well with fresh corn.100 days to maturity.This charming heirloom variety looks for all the world like a yin yang pattern, right down to the spot of opposite color on each side, for balance! The Yin Yang can be harvested young for tender (soft-shell) use or matured and dried for cookingYin Yang is an American favorite just waiting to be rediscovered. The plants reach 15 to 18 inches high, setting huge numbers of pods. The beans have a mild flavor that even children like, and are very useful if stored, enabling you to keep "bean season" going all winter!Whatever you do, be sure to set aside some of the beans to display -- Cooking these beautiful beans in lots of water helps keep them from losing their distinctive coloring.To harvest the beans as hard shells, let them dry completely inside the pods on the plants. Pick them when most of the leaves have fallen from the plants, and the seeds within the pods are hard and unyielding to the touch.(The days to maturity refers to when the beans are young and tender.) Irresistible for children's crafts, or displays when driedPLANTING INSTRUCTIONS INCLUDED