A multi-purpose Italian speciality, either for fresh young pods as flageolets (semi-mature pods with succulent seeds) or more usually as haricots (full mature pods with ripe seeds). Spectacular, flattish, pale green pods are heavily splashed with reddish streaks which disappear on cooking.
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| 1 packet (75 seeds) | £2.29 |
Delicious bunches of stringless, purple, round/oval fleshy pods up to 27cm (11in) in length over a long harvest period. Attractive in vegetable and flower gardens, especially if mixed with yellow or Borlotto beans, or Sweet Peas. Common Bean Mosaic Virus resistant. Ornamental for both flower and vegetable gardens. refers well drained, moist, rich soil in a sunny situation.
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| 1 packet (75 seeds) | £1.99 |
Massive crops of mid green, smooth, round, stringless pods about 18cm (7in) long. A highly attractive mauve flowered variety, a delight in the border, and with an exceptional flavour. Huge yields of these flavoursome beans over a long cropping season.
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| 1 packet (40 seeds) | £2.49 |
Vigorous plants producing a tremendous crop of very long, thin green pods up to 45cm in length, hence their name. Also known as ‘asparagus bean’. Flavour is at its best when picked young and tender.
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| 1 packet (30 grams) | £1.99 |
Produces a heavy crop over a long picking season if picked regularly whilst young and tender. Pods 25-27cm long, pale green, flat, 2cm broad and stringless.
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| 1 packet (30 grams) | £1.99 |
Attractive pale yellow ‘waxpod’, producing 20cm pods about 2cm broad. Very early to harvest first pods and a prolific cropper over a long season if picked regularly whilst young and tender.
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| 1 packet (40 grams) | £1.99 |
Very early to crop, with a long harvest period and decorative mauve flowers. Producing a huge harvest of superb flavoured, long, fleshy, round, mid-green stringless pods that are slow to develop seeds. Its semi-climbing, less vigorous habit makes it ideal for growing under glass for the earliest crops.
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| 1 packet (50 seeds) | £2.29 |
Long, mid green, slightly curved broad pods containing 5-6 large white ‘butter beans’. Pods can be harvested immature but it is usually grown for the full sized seeds for harvesting in the autumn.
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| 1 packet (60 grams) | £1.99 |
Delicious, fleshy bright yellow broad, flat podded, stringless waxpod, 25cm (10 inches) long and 25mm (1 inch) wide. Good early plant vigour and early to pod continuing throughout the summer. Decorative in both flower and vegetable gardens. *CBMV resistant.
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| 1 packet (50 seeds) | £2.99 |
Early variety, producing good yields throughout the summer. Pods grow up to 25cm in length and 21mm width. Can be grown in the greenhouse for earlier crops.
| Description | Price | |
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| 1 packet (25 seeds) | £2.69 |