(Phaseolus vulgaris)purple kingsessing, also known as lenape Blue Bread Bean,these dry bean have a delicious meaty flavor and are used for stews and baking into bread,six foot vines yield an abundance of purple pods filled with dark purple seeds,with a fair amount of tannish brown off -types,if saving seeds for replanting , considering sowing only purple seeds. Dating from the mid-1600s,this is the oldest documented Lenape pole bean. Spring sowing.
