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Fagiolino Dolico di Veneto Cowpea - (Vigna unguiculata) |
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In Italian Fagiolino is small bean, dolichos means "bean-eye" or bean with an eye, di Veneto is "from Veneto". Therefore this is a small bean with an eye from the Veneto region. Sweet, nutty flavor. Unusual growth habit: pods grow upright like antlers, which facilitates picking. Harvest pods when very thin for use as a snap bean, larger for dried use (cowpea or black-eyed pea).
Very productive; one planting provides an entire season‘s harvest and seeds for next season. This rare bean is in high demand and low supply - save your seeds for next year!
65 days
Approx 60 seeds per pack
Planting Instructions
Cowpeas need warm, well-drained soil and at least 6 -8 hours of full sun. When all danger of frost is past, and the ground is thoroughly warm, plant beans 1.5" deep, every 3 - 4", firming soil over seeds. Water weekly in dry weather. Planting every 3 weeks until midsummer assures a continous supply of beans.
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production follows the moon |
| We also did not care much for the snap bean stage with its gamey taste but did like the dried beans. The friend who brought the beans from Italy and shared them with us told us to watch the stages of the moon, that pod production towards the full moon would increase radically....sure enough, he was right....interesting to track. |
| - larry, NY |
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The best thing about these is the name |
| Well, the best thing about these is the name, truly. When you are giving a garden tour and say fagiolino dolico di veneto, everyone is impressed. A strange bean that shoots upright in the air, this did pretty well in the garden, but was an attractant to all kinds of bugs. At first, I tried to eat them as green beans as someone had suggested, yuck! Dont be fooled, this is a soup bean. Worth growing just to say the name on garden tours... |
| - V Biel, IL |
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Delicious |
| I really like this bean. Didnt care for it much raw, but as a dried bean it had great flavor. A little pungent like a fava. Very good. I would grow it again. |
| - jeff, AZ |
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