Lazy Housewife Beans Recipe 👉 I bake the dried beans at a low oven temperature to kill any unwanted little critters before storing. Lazy Housewife beans can be harvested and eaten as green beans 75-80 days at approx.
Our oldest climbing bean dating back to 1802. The bean pods are plump and 5 to 6 inch 13 to 16 cm long with 5 to 7 beans per pod. These were the bean found in almost every garden in this region until the home-garden-generation couldnt convince their offspring to keep planting and putting by.
It derived its name which seems discourteous from its immense productiveness.
Lazy Housewife beans can be harvested and eaten as green beans 75-80 days at approx. For the past 15 years another variety has been sold as Lazy Housewife but it was not true-to-type. Described in Burpees 1888 Farm Annual as being broad thick and very fleshy and entirely stringlessand being peculiarly luscious. Originally from Powell County.