Masai

Friday, 30 October 2009 12:43

Masai is a gourmet-style bean for the US. This variety offers a dark green, petite, whole bean with uniform pods for the fresh and processor markets. Its tender, flavorful pods hold their quality longer. Masai grows on a very upright bush and can be counted on for a constant yield. This very popular baby French filet bean is one of the most popular in Europe. Very good and flavorful beans are borne on bushes that have small leaves making it easy to pick. The pods are 4 inches long and a nice green color. It is very disease resistant and has a white seed. How can so much tender flavor be packed into such fine, dark green 4-inch pods? The tiny white seeds inside these pods are mouth-watering, and because of Masai's excellent disease resistance, you can harvest enough to satisfy everyone's cravings! Resistant to Common Bean Mosaic; tolerant of Curly Top Virus, Bacterial Brown Spot, and Halo Blight. Easy and trouble-free, even for the new gardener, this snap bean is widely adapted across the U.S., and is compact in the garden. For best harvest, succession-plant every 3 weeks or so from early spring till late summer (avoiding the worst summer heat in warm areas). Hardier than pole beans, bush snaps can be direct-sown after all danger of frost. •    Spacing: 4-6" •    Maturity: 55 Go to table of bean varieties