Grandma Gina's

Obtained from the late Remy Rotella of the the Sample Seed Shop. A stringless snap bean with gigantic, flattened pods. Pods develop some striping as they mature. Seeds are large, widely spaced in the pods, and have a very dark blue (nearly black, but it is indeed blue) seed coat. The seed coats are prone to splitting in the pod during drydown; this is probably related to weather/environmental moisture, but doesn't seem to hurt anything. Remy additionally wrote of these: "I had beans from a trade with a beany friend from 2010, and I said I better grow these before they go bad. They are a bit late to make seed, so growers in short season areas may have issues collecting seeds. Grandma Gina Lami brought the beans with her from Italy in the early 1900s. she grew them every year. Her granddaughters who live in Pittsburgh and Kalamazoo now carry on the tradition." The Gina Beans live on.