Hi Charlie,

Kwintus here in the PNW produces lots of long straight flat pods on aggressive vines. When they are 1/2 inch by 8 inches or so, they look like greasy Romano beans and they are good snaps. At around 1 inch by 10 inches, the hulls develop strings and become tough. The large white shellies are tender and delicious and we continue enjoying them after most other shellies have finished. - Dick

Hi Dick
Where did you get your seeds
It seems the ones from Park's Via Holland are different.
Mine like all flat Romano types have very few seeds per pod
It would take a bushel to make one serving of shellies
Because we like it so we had to order it each year as most of the seed saved were not viable
Charlie

I got mine from: WI MI B - 2008: 55-90, tender long flat green pods, 7-9 seeds per pod, delicious sweet bean flavor, high yields, CV Abu 00

This year one SSE member who also got his seed from WI MI B offers it:

NY MO J - 2013: 55/snap 90/dry, excellent snap/Romano bean, goes to 11' on the front of our woodshed then stops, bears heavily at 55 days, leave a few pods for shell beans/next year's seed, reblooms in August for a nice fall crop, WI MI B

Sorry I do not have seed available for this one. - Dick

I guess I need to find a better source
We loved this bean so much we were planting at least a half pound each year
The source we had kept putting them on back order[came from Holland] and did not receive until it was too late to plant.
We now sub with HELDA and GOLDMARIE which are almost as good
A few years ago we grew BARKSDALE,DORA MILLER and Musica which were very delicious also
We lost the seed of those after many years of drought conditions
Charlie