Chinese / Thai Green Yard Long Beans - Heirloom Vegetable - Vigna sesquipedalis - 5 Seeds Clay Aggregate / LECA oakleaf lettuces can also be

oakleaf lettuces can also be grown for full-size heads

each the distal end of a carpel

Propagation is mostly by seed although cuttings are possible as some species will form multiple heads or offsets

This species is relatively easy to cultivate

including in Britain

Chinese / Thai Green Yard Long Beans - Heirloom Vegetable - Vigna sesquipedalis - 5 Seeds Clay Aggregate / LECA oakleaf lettuces can also beDespite the name, the pods are actually only about half a yard long; the subspecies name sesquipedalis (one and a half foot long) is a rather exact approximation of the pods' length. This plant is of a different genus than the common bean. It is a vigorous climbing annual vine. A variety of the cowpea, it is grown primarily for its strikingly long (35 75 cm) immature pods and has uses very similar to that of a green bean. The pods, which begin to form