POLE LIMA BEANS 
CULTURE: Pole limas require the same warm, 
fairly dry growing season that bush limas need. 
They ‘must be spaced out in hills about 3 feet each 
way and trained up on poles or strings as they 
grow. 
SMALL SEED VARIETIES: 
Florida Speckled Butter — A popular green and 
dry shell lima in southern gardens. Stands hot 
weather well, and the quality is good. Vines are 
often 8 feet long or more, dark green, bear over 
a long growing season. Pods are about 3% inches 
long by % inch wide, flat, medium green, smooth, 
contain 3 to 4 seeds per pod. Dry seed is small, 
flat, buff speckled with reddish brown. 85 days. 
Small White Sieva — A climbing butter-bean 
that is well liked by gardeners because of its fine 
eating quality, earliness, and long-bearing season. 
Vines are 9 to 10 feet long, climbing, dark green, 
heavy-yielding. Pods are 3 inches long, flat, %4 
inches wide, smooth, medium green. Dry seed is 
small, flat, white. 85 days. 
LARGE SEEDED VARIETIES: 
Challenger — Sometimes called Fordhook Pole be- 
cause it resembles Fordhook Bush Lima in pod and 
bean seed. Vines are 10 to 12 feet long, very pro- 
ductive, climbing, medium green. Pods are about 
41% inches long by 1 inch wide, plump, straight, 
mediun’* green, contain 4 to 5 seeds per pod. At 
picking stage, seed is bright green, plump and thick. 
In dry stage seed is white. oval, thick. 95 days. 
Giant Speckled Butter — Some gardeners call this 
the Christmas Lima. Most gardeners who have tried 
it believe it is the best pole lima available. Flavor 
and cooking qualities are fine. Vines are heavy, 
vigorous, dark green, 10 feet long. Pods are about 
5 inches long, slightly curved, broad and flat, 
medium green, smooth. Seed is very large, pale 
green in eating stage. In dry state, seed is cream 
with red splashes, large and flat. 95 days. 
King of the Garden — Also called Large White 
Pole Lima. This is a very widely used home garden 
and freezing variety. Vine is about 9 feet long, well- 
foliated, dark green, high-yielding. Pods are about 
6 inches long by 1% inches wide, broad, flat, and 
smooth, light green, with 4 to 5 seeds per pod. Dry 
seed is thick flat, very large, white. 90 days. 
PEAS 
CULTURE: Peas may be sown in the early spring 
and in the fall. They require cool, growing weather 
but tend to rot if the soil is cold and wet during‘ 
germination. Dwarf and trailing types can be sown 
in double rows 6 or 8 inches apart and then spaced 
3 feet apart. Tall types should be spaced 4 inches 
apart in the row in 3 foot rows, so they can be sup- 
ported by poles, string, or wire. Peas will continue 
to bear if picked often. 
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