Borlotto (Borlotti) Italian Garden Bean

Price: $2.95

70 days — 'Borlotto', also known as 'Borlotti' or 'Tongues of Fire', is an heirloom Italian-type bush bean. The plants are sturdy, erect, and reach about twenty four inches in height.

Like other Italian beans, the pods are flattened in shape. 'Borlotto' pods are pale-green in color, mottled with rosy-red. The beans are best harvested when they are about five inches long at the young, tender stage, just as the seeds start to swell in the pods.

The seeds are a creamy-tan color mottled with maroon. Each ounce is approximately 40 seeds.