- This variety can be planted up to a week after the last frost and produces all black beans which turn purplish after cooking and have a meaty texture and rich, nutty flavor.
50-55 days. Annual. Fall in love with the flavorful Black Valentine Bush Bean seeds that grow into a fruitful bean bush, taking 70 days from seed to harvest. Heirloom black valentine shelling bean variety that can also be harvested in the green bean stage. Produces all black beans which turn purplish after cooking and have a meaty texture and rich, nutty flavor. The Black Valentine is a variety of bean that can be planted one week after the last frost. Black Valentines are a bush variety, so it isn't necessary to use a support for them to grow. The beans have a rich flavor and can be harvested as snaps or dried.