Green Savage

Pole Green Snap. Bred by the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station in Baton Rouge and released by Reuter Seed Co. in 1949. A cross between Savage Wonder and Canfreezer. It's a southern adapted bean noted for being stringless, high yielding and high quality and straight podded with bean rust resistance. Grew outstandingly well here in my 2018 and 2025 northern Illinois garden and in Ontario, Canada gardens. Seed is nearly oval with a slight indent at the eye. Color is grayish tan with a very slight speckled undercolor and a prominent purplish eye ring. I have never seen this one in any seed catalog. Why on Earth would such a great bean have fallen out of even commercial favor? Source: T. Rosamilia, Catasauqua, Pennsylvania 2017.