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Bean Super Marconi (57-30)
Product Code:
57-30
$5.00 - $25.00
Pole Roma. This is the Roma type bean seen all over Italy in markets. Beans will grow to 10 inches and remain tender. You can begin picking them at 5-6 inches. Very meaty. Makes a wonderful bean salad. Like all pole beans, keep picking to encourage continued production. 65 days or so to harvest. A vigorous climber, it will need support: use trellis, tripods or single poles at least 7 feet tall. Pole beans are much more productive in a tight garden space over a longer period, than bush beans. Plant after soil has warmed up well, since seeds are not treated. Plant 3-4 seeds around base of each pole or 2 seeds every six inches for trellis. Thin to one/six inches for trellis, 2 plants for poles. 30 grams. Approximately 40 seeds. Pole beans have approximately 1 seed per gram.
To see our growing guide for beans, click here.
Pole Roma. This is the Roma type bean seen all over Italy in markets. Beans will grow to 10 inches and remain tender. You can begin picking them at 5-6 inches. Very meaty. Makes a wonderful bean salad. Like all pole beans, keep picking to encourage continued production. 65 days or so to harvest. A vigorous climber, it will need support: use trellis, tripods or single poles at least 7 feet tall. Pole beans are much more productive in a tight garden space over a longer period, than bush beans. Plant after soil has warmed up well, since seeds are not treated. Plant 3-4 seeds around base of each pole or 2 seeds every six inches for trellis. Thin to one/six inches for trellis, 2 plants for poles. 30 grams. Approximately 40 seeds. Pole beans have approximately 1 seed per gram.
To see our growing guide for beans, click here.
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Customer Reviews
9 Review
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really good Italian bean
I prefer the big, wide Italian type bean, with good beany flavor and a slightly soft texture when cooked. Likes the hot weather I get in summer, with vigorous vines--very impressive growing on teepees midsummer.
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Italy's finest green bean!
A very heavy producer of a large flat green bean with the sweetest green bean flavor I have tasted! My first seed packets of this green bean came from an Italian market in Tuscany. I mailed many varieties of beans to plant and compare. Fagiolo Rampicante Supermarconi (S.B.) won 1st Place in my kitchen. Now I can usually find this variety somewhere and when I can't, I make enough of a pest of myself to get some found for me. I only buy the climbing variety! I have made a lot of Fagiolo Rampicante Supermarconi (S.B.) converts in the community garden where my plot usually has 4 or five teepees every summer. Freezes well. Produces enough to share and make converts.
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Pick them when they are smaller
Despite the suggestion they are still crisp with no strings even when grown to 10", I would not suggest letting them get that large. I parboiled the larger ones which may have contributed to a thin outer layer of skin peeling off. They did have an occasional string and overall taste was a bit too starchy.