Plant in late spring as a few cold wet days at planting time may rot the seed. Plant seedsi % inches apart in rows 2.5 — 3 feet apart. Cover seeds with 1.5 — 2 inches of soil that is well pressed down. When plants are 2 to 3 inches tall, thin to 3 inches apart. (To prevent spread of disease do not hoe when wet.) Germinates in 6 to 10 days depending on soil and temperature conditions.
Pick pods frequently for highest quality and yield. For use as a green vegetable, pods should be harvested while bright green yet still crisp enough to snap in two when bent. For dried bean use, allow pods to mature and change color. Make successive plantings every 2 to 3 weeks until midsummer
Phaseolus vulgaris is widely cultivated in temperate, sub-tropical and tropical regions, but nowhere known as a wild plant.

The cargarnanto bean is a native of Columbia.
Linguistic history of the English word “bean” from the Oxfod English Dictionary:
“Common Teut.: OE. bean (fem.) = OHG. bOna, rnod.G. bohne, MDu. bone, Du. boon, ON. baun:OTeut. *baunâ (str. fern.); conjectured by Fick to be for an earlier babna, cogn. with L. faba, Slav. bob’s, Old Prussian babo; but phonetic considerations render this doubtful.”

“Those summer days which some of my contemporaries devoted to the fine arts in Boston or Rome, and others to contemplation in India, and others to trade in London or New York, I thus, with the other farmers of New England, devoted to husbandry. Not that I wanted beans to eat, for I am by nature a Pythagorean, so far as beans are concerned, whether they mean porridge or voting, and exchanged them for rice; but, perchane, as some must work in the fields if only for the sake of tropes and expression, to serve a parable-maker one day. It was on the whole a rare amusement, which, continued too long, might have become a dissipation. Though I gave them no manure, and did not hoe them all once, I hoed them unusually well as far as I went, and was paid for it in the end, there being in truth,’ as Evelyn says, ‘no compost or laetation whatsoever comparable to this continual motion, repastination, and turning of the mould with the spade.”
Henry David Thoreau, On Walden Pond

Serving Size:
Calories:
Total Fat:
Saturated Fat
Cholesterol:

lOOg
127
0.5 g
0.07g
0.0

Sodium:
Carbohydrates:
Dietary fiber:
Sugar:
Protein:

2.0mg
22.8g
3.6g
19.2g
8.7g

Vitamin A:
Calcium:
Vitamin C:
Iron:

0
28mg
1mg
2.9mg

Borlotti Bean Salad
800g fresh borlotti beans, shelled
olive oil
1 onion, finely chopped
2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
2 1/4 cups chicken stock
2 vine ripe tomatoes
1 cup (loosely packed) flat-leaf parsley leaves, coarsely chopped
juice of 1 lemon
Heat 2 tbsp olive oil in a heavy saucepan, add onion and garlic and cook over medium heat for 5-6 minutes or until soft. Add beans and just enough stock to cover, then simmer gently for 30 minutes or until tender. If there is any liquid left in the pan, increase heat to high and cook until liquid has nearly evaporated. Remove from heat and cool. — Combine cooled beans with remaining ingredients and season to taste with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Serve immediately.

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On Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau