Cherokee Trail of Tears

These beans are my favorite! They are prolific - they are tasty as snap beans - they are tasty as dried beans - and the dried beans are beautiful. The first year I planted these, I had 10 seeds. They all grew and I let them all dry....I ended up with 1,500 beans!!! Are you kidding me? Ever since, I eat all the green beans I want and let the rest dry on the vine. The dried beans are amazingly delicious and satisfying that I grew them myself. Very easy to grow. Try them - you won't go back.

My husband is Native American, so I bought these mainly out of curiosity. We originally put up a simple stake and line trellis which we ended up reinforcing with t-posts because the vines were so vigorous and productive! It took a while for the beans to mature for our first picking, but they continued to bloom and produce all through summer. Fall hit and the vines began to look scraggly, but we got one more good harvest! They don't make good snap beans in our opinion, but they cook up very good and are great mixed with navy or other varieties also. We will plant these again for sure!

These beans are amazing!! I planted them along a section of my garden fence and they did amazing! They were a mass of vines with "millions" of beans! I've been planting the black turtle bush beans, which are also great and mature earlier, but I don't get nearly as many beans for the space and effort. I wound up picking most of these in snowy January. It's great that I can just leave them on the fence to pick whenever. They were dry and didn't curl up and drop the beans before I could get to them like other varieties do. I cook them up with my dried runner beans and veggies and make a year's worth of burrito filling for the freezer. Plus I have lots of seeds to plant for the spring. Will definitely do a longer row this year! Love these!!

Temperate zone, it was seeded at May 20th, germinated 108 days (24 days after standard "Kreolka"), at the 4th of October it gave a yeld 40 g per plant. seed size is 0.32 g. It boils at 60 minutes. It is very late in our conditions, it won't be ripen every year. In our opinion "Black turtle" is very suitable for us. These seeds will be given to people from south like Krasnodar and Ukraine.

Planted 80 seeds and only 64 made it the bugs attacked the young growth, I laid on the ground a slug and ant killer with spinosad and iron in pellets. Bugs left them alone after that, They are prolific viners which can reach 8-10ft long!! I just left them all on the vine until they dried up, If you plant in June at the end of October They cook up real nice, The beans are large with tons of flavor and have a smooth texture. I harvested 2.5lbs of dry beans! I plan on planting more next year so I can harvest twice as many more!!