Also known as "Preacher Bean", Rattlesnake is a pole-type variety that produces bountiful and continuous yields of 7-inch-long, purple-flecked beans. Young snap beans are tender and delicious, well-suited for steaming or canning. Beans can also be left to dry on the plant and harvested as a shelling bean. Dry beans resemble a pinto and
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Rattlesnake Beans
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Cynthia · August 19, 2026
Didn’t germinate.
These seeds (and the other pole bean varieties I bought here) simply didn’t come up. I’ve never had an issue with this in my entire life as a gardener.
It is especially disappointing, because I wanted to put them away as “leather britches” this fall.
