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Peas and beans are easy to grow and great for children too. Sowing in succession (every few weeks) means you'll have a continuous crop throughout the summer. Try growing sweet peas next to your runner beans to improve pollination.
Broad Bean 'Aquadulce Claudia' - Part of the Alan Titchmarsh CollectionVicia faba, Fava Beans
A gardeners’ favourite. Broad bean 'Aquadulce Claudia' is the best broad bean for autumn sowing, overwintering plants on the plot outside, for an early harvest the following spring. Slender pods of 23cm (9") long, are full of succulent white seeded flavoursome beans. Height: 100cm (39"). Spread: 45cm (18"). Companion planting: Try growing broad beans with summer savory to help repel black bean aphids, a common pest of broad beans. Useful links: More info |
Asparagus PeaLotus tetragonolobus Customer RatingAn easy to grow, unusual vegetable with a unique gourmet flavour. A hint of asparagus - perhaps? Asparagus Pea goes with virtually any dish. Cook whole at 3cm (1in) long, preferably by steaming, and serve with a little melted butter. No flavouring should be used as this will destroy its own delicious taste. Asparagus Pea can also be used in the flower border as attractive ground cover. More info |
Dwarf Bean 'Amethyst' - Kew Collection SeedsPhaseolus vulgaris, French Bean, Green Bean, Bush Bean These compact plants produce a succession of tasty, stringless, quick maturing beans over a long picking season. The slender pods, each measuring about 15cm (6”) long, turn to an attractive shade of green once cooked. With its pretty mauve flowers and colourful purple beans, Dwarf Bean ‘Amethyst’ makes an attractive addition to the vegetable plot. Height: 60cm (24”). Spread: 30cm (12”). Companion planting: Try growing French beans with Nasturtiums to draw aphids away from your crop. Useful links: More info |
Runner Bean 'Snowstorm'Phaseolus coccineus
A tasty self setting variety, Runner Bean 'Snowstorm' is the white-flowered counterpart of 'Firestorm'. Produced by the same British breeding programme as the popular Runner Bean ‘Moonlight’, but showing improvements with a higher percentage of 'self setting' and a larger pod than 'Moonlight'. With its pure white flowers, this attractive variety looks equally at home in the flower border as well as the vegetable plot. Height: 3m (10’). Spread: 30cm (12"). Companion planting: Try growing runner beans with sweet peas to attract pollinating insects to the flowers, and Nasturtiums to draw aphids away from your crop. Useful links: More info |
Pea 'Canoe' (Second Early)Pisum sativum Customer RatingSecond Early A well named and highly productive variety, producing long slightly curved pods with pointed tips that each contain up 12 peas. With such full pods, Pea ‘Canoe’ is set to become an ideal variety for exhibition. The heavy crops are carried on semi leafless stems for easy picking, and plants become virtually self supporting if grown in a block. Surplus crops of this wrinkle seeded pea freeze particularly well. Height: 75cm (30"). Spread: 25cm (10"). Useful links: Culinary note: Some parts of these flowers are edible. For more details about edible flowers click here. More info |
Pea 'Avola' (First Early) - Kew Collection SeedsPisum sativum Customer RatingFirst early This compact variety grows to just 60cm (24”) tall making it perfect for containers and small plots. Pea ‘Avola’ is early maturing, producing an abundance of tender pods, each packed with up to 8 succulent peas of a superb sweet flavour. Surplus crops from this variety freeze particularly well. Height: 60cm (24”). Spread: 25cm (10”). Useful links: Culinary note: Some parts of these flowers are edible. For more details about edible flowers click here. More info |
Broad Bean 'Masterpiece Green Longpod'Vicia faba, Fava Beans Customer RatingArguably the best green-seeded variety, growing well in most conditions, and producing good pod lengths with up to 7 beans per pod. Broad Bean ‘Masterpiece Green Longpod’ has remarkable flavour and table qualities. This superb RHS AGM variety is also excellent for freezing. Height: 90cm (35”). Spread: 45cm (18”). Companion planting: Try growing broad beans with summer savory to help repel black bean aphids, a common pest of broad beans. Useful links: More info |
Pea 'Celebration' (First Early)Pisum sativum First Early This wrinkle seeded ‘petit pois’ comes from new British breeding. The semi leafless plants produce plenty of small dark green peas which hold both their colour and superb taste even after freezing. Pea ‘Celebration’ is self supporting if grown in a block. Height: 60cm (24"). Spread: 25cm (10"). Useful links: Culinary note: Some parts of these flowers are edible. For more details about edible flowers click here. More info |
Pea 'Kenobi' (Maincrop)Pisum sativum Maincrop. Extend the sowing season with this major development in pea breeding! In our UK trials, Pea ‘Kenobi’ was sown in late July and pods were starting to swell by mid October. This semi-leafless variety is virtually self supporting when grown in a block, and will produce 3-4 pods per node, giving a good average yield of 8 peas to the pod. Good downy and powdery mildew resistance also helps to maximise cropping and prolong the season. Height: 60cm (24”). Spread: 25cm (10”). Useful links: Culinary note: Some parts of these flowers are edible. For more details about edible flowers click here. More info |
Runner Bean 'Benchmaster'Phaseolus coccineus A top quality, red flowered British-bred variety producing pods of over 40cm (16") in length. Abundant crops of pods hang in clusters and are fleshy, but slender, smooth and straight. For exhibition, thin to one pod per flower stem to increase the length of each bean. Runner beans are a good source of Vitamin C, folate and iron, and have a high fibre content. Runner Bean ‘Benchmaster’ is also suitable for freezing. Height: 3m (10’). Spread: 30cm (12").Culinary note: Some parts of these flowers are edible. For more details about edible flowers click here. Companion planting: Try growing runner beans with sweet peas to attract pollinating insects to the flowers, and Nasturtiums to draw aphids away from your crop. Useful links: More info |
Runner Bean 'Desiree'Phaseolus coccineus A very heavy cropping runner bean that crops well even in dry conditions. Runner Bean ‘Desiree’ produces long, broad pods up to 30cm (12”) in length that are completely stringless. The beans of this white flowered variety produce few seeds, making them particularly flashy and flavoursome. Height: 3m (10’). Spread: 30cm (12”). Companion planting: Try growing runner beans with sweet peas to attract pollinating insects to the flowers, and Nasturtiums to draw aphids away from your crop. Useful links: More info |
Dwarf Bean 'Concador'Phaseolus vulgaris, French Bean, Green Bean, Bush Bean The slender, straight, colourful yellow pods of Dwarf Bean ‘Concador’ are produced over a long season. Growing to about 12cm (5in) long, the pods are flavoursome and easy to spot when picking. This compact and disease-resistant bean is ideal for use in containers and has good resistance to bean mosaic virus, anthracnose and halo blight. Height: 45cm (18”). Spread: 30cm (12”). Companion planting: Try growing French beans with Nasturtiums to draw aphids away from your crop. Useful links: More info |