Boyd York

Snap bean. Strongly climbing pole bean. Long, slightly curved to recurving green beans measure 5-7" long. Beans are thick walled and a bit tough and dry; stringless; standard flavor. Pods mature to yellow with faint red mottling. White flowers. Non-pigmented plants. Strongly contracting dry pods. 5-8 seeds per pod. Dry beans are long, oval-shaped, and beige colored with light grey mottling with dark grey stripes. Hard-seeded. Low to intermediate productivity when grown in 2015 at Heritage Farm. Very late maturing. Donated to SSE in 2013 by Benjamin Hale of Kentucky. Benjamin helped grow and save seed of the variety as a child in his family’s garden but began stewarding them after his father’s death in 2003. Benjamin’s father, Gary Hale, got seeds of the variety from his uncle, Boyd York in 1978. Uncle Boyd (age 101 in 2013) was born in Clay County, Kentucky in 1912 and live there most of his life. Boyd received the variety from his mother, Minnie Bond-York. Minnie grew the bean variety in Owsley County, Kentucky when she lived there in the late 1800s. SSE Accession # 131800