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We were given a stack of seed by a regular to the shop, he told us that it was a "dwarf snake bean". So we'll we've grown some and it grows well, nice and productive. The beans are all produced on the end of spikes where the individual flowers then beans grow out from the end of the spike.

I've just eaten one and they taste pretty good. They do look a bit hairy, but when you eat them it's not really noticeable. I was waiting for them to get longer, but this looks like it's all they will grow to as a few of the pods have dried off already. Anyone have any idea about these, anyone grown them?

Can't get beans to grow - period !

I'll give you some seed from these when you come down this arvo... We found we had issues with germination of many different seeds till Faye went on a blitz of slug trapping, now we have heaps of seeds coming up..

Thanks Joel - see you there

I've got some just comming up now. They were the first dwarf seeds I found in the drawer.


Put a cup over the standpipe and flood the gb. The slugs will end up on top and can be picked off and given to the fish.

they look so like what we grow as field peas, purple hull, black eyed, cow peas, zipper cream...ect leave some to mature out and see if the pods color change. i bet jd or one of the other southern usa boys would agree.
edet...
if they are what we would call a field pea they get shelled before you eat them.

Hi Joel,
I grew them years ago and lost the seed ,I have been trying to get some more for years.Could you save me some seads please?
The reason that I like them is that they will grow in the greanhouse during the winter and normal snake beens won't

Hi Joel,
I grew them years ago and lost the seed ,I have been trying to get some more for years.Could you save me some seads please?
The reason that I like them is that they will grow in the greanhouse during the winter and normal snake beens won't

Don't quite know why or how this got posted twice.

Hi bigworm ,the field peas that we have are totally differant and do have to be shelled.Snake beens you eat straight from the bush pod and all.

No worries, Don, PM me your address and I'll send you a bag of them, we have heaps of seed still left from the guy who gave them to us..

Anyone else in Australia that wants some, PM me your address and I'll send some.. Sorry to those OS....

Big worm, they do dry out, I just gave the dried ones to chillidude today but I'll wait till some more dry and the pods go quite dark, I'll take some pics...

they so look like field peas.... i would love get some of those, but alot of what you grow can't be found here.

Happens the other way as well. Looked at US seed sites and they have a lot of plants that we don't have over here. Bannana seeds etc.

BW, I do agree. They look very similar. I did a little googling and discovered they were indeed different variaties of the same species Vigna unguiculata.

I luv black eyed peas

Tricked ya