Everwilde Farms - 1/4 lb Romano Pole Bean Seeds - Gold Vault Bulk Seed Packet

These Italian style beans produce six-inch long pods full of rich flavor in just 70 days. The stringless flat beans are terrific for freezing or table use and are best when harvested young. This bean grows on tall vines up to nine feet high. As the name suggests, Romano heirloom beans hail from Italy. However, the vegetable we now recognize as the common bean has its roots in South America; some historians fix the date as far back as 8,000 BC to the Pre-Incan civilization in Peru. When Columbus arrived in the New World, he found green beans growing with the maize of the Indians. Columbus and other European explorers introduced this new vegetable to their countries, where it eventually spread to the rest of Europe and all over the world.