50-70 days. NON-GMO, open pollinated, heirloom.
A tender and delicious variety that is excellent due to its versatility in the kitchen! Blue Lake Pole vines can grow up to 12 feet long, and due to their growth habit, they require some kind of growing guidance such as poles or strings. The oval pods produced are crisp and tender, growing up to 6" long. This variety is a type of green or string bean. They grow quickly and are easy to grow, making them an excellent addition to the home garden.
Food production in the fertile soils of the Willamette Valley was once a primary industry of Oregon. Bred for canning and fresh-frozen packaging, Blue Lake beans were one of the preferred classes of green beans until the cost to hand pick soared and the invention of mechanical harvesters changed planting trends to bush type beans.
'Blue Lake FM-1K', also known as 'Stringless Blue Lake FM-1K', is one of many in a series of Blue Lake-type beans that were introduced in the middle of the twentieth century. Its pods are stringless when young and tender, dark green in color, round in cross section, tasty, reach about six inches in length, and have white seeds. They can be enjoyed fresh as snap or shell beans, canned, frozen or dried. The plants are vigorous, climb well, and are productive. It is a common bean mosaic virus resistant strain.
Bred by the ferry Morse seed Co. of Mountain View, California, 'Stringless Blue Lake FM-1K', was selected from a stabilized cross between their 'Morse’s Pole 65' pole bean and standard Blue Lake-type beans and introduced in 1959.