Yard long beans fruit

The yard long beans are beginning to fruit, and true to their name, the bean pod is long! I picked some that were about 2 feet long, but the hulls were already too tough to eat as green beans. The long bean's violet flower resembles an orchid, and soon a pair of pods begin to form.

Yard long bean blooms

The first yard long bean flower appeared today. The vines are growing rapidly and I'm looking forward to harvesting the green beans sometime later this summer.