Vegetable Seeds – Broad Bean Masterpiece Green Longpod is an RHS award-winning variety that produces up to 7 bright-green beans per pod with an excellent flavour and texture.
Probably the best green-seeded variety, it grows well in most conditions.
This variety is also perfect for freezing.
Height: 90cm (35″). Spread: 45cm (18″).
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Vegetable Seeds – Broad Bean Witkiem Manita is an RHS award-winning, white seeded variety that produces a good crop of plump pods filled with large, tasty beans.
Witkiem Manita has superb tolerance to cold weather making it ideal for early February sowings and can be sown successionally through to May and can be harvested from June onwards.
This excellent variety is delicious when cooked fresh, although these beans freeze very well.
Height: 100cm (39″). Spread: 45cm (18″).
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Vegetable Seeds – Climbing French Bean Hunter is an RHS award-winning variety that produces abundant crops of bright green, white-seeded, almost stringless beans.
Bean Hunter combines the dependable heavy harvest of runner beans with the tenderness and reliability of traditional French Beans, Hunter French beans have become a staple in many British vegetable plots.
The beans grow to about 12 inches (30 cm) long.
The plants grow well both under protection and outdoors, and can be inter-planted with peas and runner beans.
Like all French beans, this variety freezes well.
They’re also great for drying and using as haricot beans. And of course, they taste great both raw and cooked.
These are a climbing bean, so make sure to provide them a trellis, canes, or other support.
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Vegetable Seeds – Climbing French Bean Cosse Violette produces beautiful deep-purple pods which turn dark green when cooked.
Cosse Violette has a superb flavour and harvests well over a long period in a glasshouse or outside.
Climbing beans such as this variety should be supported much in the same way runner beans are.
This family of beans is frost tender and cannot be sown outside until the weather has warmed up.
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Vegetable Seeds – Climbing French Bean Blue Lake is a heritage variety dating from 1885 that produces heavy yields of long and thin, stringless pods with a superb sweet flavour.
Blue Lake reliably produces legumes over a long period thought the season.
The mid-green coloured pods are best picked when 10-12cm long & used fresh.
The older pods can be dried and the beans used as haricot beans.
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Vegetable Seeds – Climbing French Bean Borlotta Lingua Di Fuoco produces great crops of beans with an excellent flavour, eye-catching colour and are super-versatile.
These decorative beans can be picked and used fresh or left to grow on.
Mature beans can be shelled from the pods and dried, prepared and served as dried flageolet or cannellini.
Lingua di Fuoco literally translates as Tongue of Fire and can be eaten young in the pod, either raw or cooked, or they can be shelled and used like a flageolet bean, or shelled and dried.
The beautiful red speckling disappears when cooked.
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Vegetable Seeds – Climbing French Bean Lazy Housewife is a delicious, stringless, heritage variety that has outstanding flavour and texture.
Originally introduced in 1885, Lazy Housewife is the first bean that doesn’t require de-stringing, hence the name.
The young stringless pods can be cooked whole, requiring little or no preparation, or delicious shelled beans can be dried and stored when mature.
Young pods have a delicious buttery flavour whilst the dried beans have a creamier and heavier flavour.
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Vegetable Seeds – Climbing French Bean Cobra is an RHS award-winning variety that produces beans with an exceptional flavour that crops continuously over a long season.
Cobra produces heavy yields of smooth, round, stringless, green pods approximately 18cm (7″) long.
An attractive plant with pale purple flowers that makes a great addition to your borders as well as your vegetable plot.
Height: 180cm (70″). Spread: 30cm (12″).
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Vegetable Seeds – Dwarf French Bean Faraday produces masses of pencil shaped, green beans with an excellent flavour and texture.
Faraday also has excellent disease-resistance and is perfectly suited to raised beds or containers.
Beans need training and support in the usual manner, whether it be a wigwam or other structure.
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Vegetable Seeds – Dwarf French Bean Amethyst produces a succession of tasty, stringless, quick-maturing beans over a long harvesting season.
These compact plants produce heavy crops of slender pods approximately 15cm (6″) long with light buff beans that turn to an attractive shade of green once cooked.
Height: 60cm (24″). Spread: 30cm (12″).
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Vegetable Seeds – Dwarf French Bean Tendergreen is an early variety that produces an abundant harvest of beautiful, stringless, pencil-shaped beans with an excellent flavour and flesh.
Tendergreen develops pods that grow to approximately 15cm long, with pale-green and purple-speckled beans.
This variety has gained real popularity with vegetable growers as it crops much earlier than other types.
It is a bushy plant and grows to approximately 40cm and is self-supporting and sturdy.
Height: 45cm (18″). Spread: 30cm (12″).
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Vegetable Seeds – Dwarf French Bean Safari is late-maturing with a sturdy, vigorous growing habit that produces very fine, stringless pods with an excellent flavour and texture.
Safari develops dark-green pods approximately 12cm in length.
Safari is also known as Kenyan Beans and benefits from a high level of disease resistance.
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