Provider Bean

Best beans for home garden bar none. Hardy plants that bear a large number of beans per plant. Two nine-foot rows produce enough for a family of four to eat all they want and to can a dozen or so quarts for the winter. I plant the rows a week or so apart so we can enjoy them fresh for longer.

Planted 5/1 (Zone 6A) and produced right on time. Planted every two weeks. Great taste, nice size, and many weeks of production. Some plants were taken over by nearby squash and were ignored after a while yet still had many usable beans when "rediscovered" weeks later. Will certainly start the season with these again.

We live in growing zone 5, and 2020 brought us both late spring snow/frost and an early snow. We still got two crops of Provider. They seem to be especially good for freezing- no mushy texture, and they even smell fresh picked when thawed. This is my string bean of choice now.

I am very impressed with this bean. Insects seem to avoid it, its growing under the shade of a tree. Other bean varieties are struggling in the same area.

Zone 7b
There were bites in the young leaves in early spring, but the plants recovered and produced wonderfully and I have more beans than I expected.

We won against the rabbits and woodchucks this year. Wow , provider is an understatement. Planted in early may here in central Massachusetts. Had beans in June and they are still going strong in mid September.

I love beans and I grow a lot of different varieties - bush and pole, fresh and dried. Provider tolerates cooler soils than most beans, and it's the first one I direct sow every year. Keep the plants watered and picked and they just keep on producing delicious beans. Love this bean.

I must be doing something wrong as these Beans are taking a very long time to produce flowers and beans. The plants keep growing but no flowers or beans. Possibly these beans 50 days maturity is much longer than other Bush Beans I have planted. Hope I get some before frost lol !

We are in zone 6. This is our first year using provider. It is exceeding all our expectations. The flavor is very good. We have kept them watered and even with the exceptionally high temperatures in June they have continued to produce beans. They also held their blooms through the heat. We are very happy with this outstanding bean. It has become our bean of choice.

Good tasting bean, but unruly plant. Not a real bush bean, and had trouble germinating compared to other beans.

These beans produced a good steady flow of tasty but small green beans. They grew well although got hammered by leaf miners and rust at the end of the summer. We started a new batch for fall and they are growing well. Great variety! Even the killer summer heat (zone 96) didn't bother them too much

We have grown this bush bean for years and it never disappoints.

Prolific and steady output--truly lives up to its name.
Delighted by the production and flavor. A new favorite

This has been my most reliable bean over the last 3 years! Heavy bearer, delicious bean!

2023 was not the year for this bean. Planted not once but twice as nothing germinated the first time… Nothing. Second planting was less of a failure BUT bean plants only grew to 10” tall and only a few actually flowered and produced. 150 seeds planted and my family of 3 had only 2 meals of beans. Waste of money and time.