Dolloff

Pole/dry bean. Seeds are reddish tan with darker brown mottling. A very good tasting shelling and dry bean that is savory and sweet with a dense flesh. Skin is relatively thick. Dry beans are hard seeded. Plants were not vigorous climbers and were moderately productive when grown in 2014 at Heritage Farm. Leaves dark green and stems green with red pigmentation at the nodes. Flowers white. Immature pods green, with red dashes appearing later in fully expanded stage. Mature pods yellow with red dashes. Pods are straight and have an upward curving beak that is long. Suture string present, but weak. Not recommended as a snap bean. Mature pods 4-6" long and about 0.5" wide. Dry pods are shattering. 4-6 seeds per pod. Mid-season maturity to dry pod stage when grown in 2014 at Heritage Farm. Originally listed in the 1986 SSE Yearbook Exchange by Leigh Hurley (VT PI L, formerly Leigh Pierce), who received the variety in 1985 from Hattie Gray of West Burke, Vermont. Hattie remembered walking with her mother to Burke Hollow, VT as a girl (circa 1920) to get the seed from Roy Dolloff. Used by Hattie as a dry bean in baked beans or as a shelling bean. SSE Accession # 104261