Re: Missing Green Bean?

**y*@sfo.com**

At 2:12 PM -0600 11/2/09, Gene Bush wrote:
>...While discussing green bean verities the old standby
>"Little white half-runners" or "Dutch Half Runners" entered the discussion.
>Last I heard susceptibility to disease led to their no longer being used
>here in mid-west gardens. Any of you really up to date on your veggie
>gardening on this excellent tasting and texture bean for the home gardener?
>
The best bean I've grown is a half runner, La Vigneronne, which seems 
to be available only in Europe. It's so good and sweet fresh from the 
garden that very few of them made it into the house. I haven't come 
across Dutch half runners in my search for other great-tasting pole 
beans, but I've come across a few sources for other promising beans 
(SSE would be my first choice if I had a larger garden!):

Sand Hill Preservation in Iowa (which doesn't accept seed orders 
until late December) and 2 Canadian companies
http://www.heritageharvestseed.com/
http://www.hopeseed.com/beans.html

Tanya Kucak
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