Good Mother

Tuesday, 03 November 2009 11:45

Good mother is a family heirloom that has been enjoyed for generations. A great dry bean, wonderful rich, meaty flavor, great for soups. Very productive, 5-6 seeds per pod. In addition to their pretty Easter Egg appearance, the seeds have an almost fruity fragrance when you open a storage jar - making these a great bean to grow in quantity and store over the winter in your pretty glass countertop jars! Very pleasant! Good Mother Stallard bean is famous as a dried soup bean and with good reason. Good production on vigorous vines All beans are legumes and benefit from "inoculating" with rhizobecteria. These bacteria do the work of taking gaseous nitrogen from the air and "fixing" or concentrating it in pink root nodules which then slough off, adding nitrogen to the soil in a form other plants can take up as a nutrient. Inoculating your beans and peas will increase germination, and the health of your plants, helping them growing large roots and thus healthier plants. Growing pole beans with corn provides an extra shot of nitrogen to the corn, a wonderful natural symbiotic relationship that the Native Americans understood very well. You will see a big difference in overall results. Healthy legumes should also be turned under the soil when production ends as they are excellent green manure for your next crops. Pole habit. 90 days to maturity Go to table of bean varieties