Phaseolus vulgaris, Purple Kingsessing Bean [SEEDS]

Culture notes:  Also known as Lenape Blue Bread Beans, these dry beans have a delicious meaty flavor and are used for stews and baking into bread. Six foot vines yield an abundance of purple pods filled with dark purple seeds, with a fair amount of tannish brown off-types. If saving seed for replanting, consider sowing only the purple seeds. Kingsessing is derived from the Lenape word "Chingsessing," meaning “a place where there is a meadow.” Originally, this was the name for the land between the Schuylkill River and Cobbs Creek, in what is now West and Southwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. These seeds were grown once again in Kingsessing by staff at the Bartram's Garden.

Sun: Part Sun to Full Sun
Water: Normal to Moist
Soil notes: Sandy Loam To Loam