Nonna Agnes' Blue

Phaseolus vulgaris From the town of San Bernardo in northern Italy, this is a small bean, but it grows on mightily productive plants. It's also incredibly beautiful. It's great for soups, stews, stir-fries, bean pies, chili, hummus or other dips, or whatever else your imagination cooks up! The blue pigment is heat sensitive and it degrades when the seeds ripen in hot weather, so seeds that ripen during the heat of the summer will be more of a steel grey while those that ripen during cooler weather heading into fall will be a gorgeous sapphire blue. The color is most vivid when the beans are fresh. Very striking. Even the purple flowers are pretty. This is a vigorous pole type, so be sure you have a good trellis. Also known as San Bernardo Blue