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French beans

Monday, November 24th, 2014

I love french beans!
They’re fairly easy to grow providing you remember to harden them off and then protect them from slugs when they’re small.


Bean (Dwarf French) Seeds – Bobis d’Albenga
 £0.99
This superb Italian variety produces high yields of curved, speckled pods. They’re stringless, flavoursome and exceptionally tender. Ideal for slicing. Sow every two weeks for constant cropping.

Bean (Dwarf French) Seeds – Speedy
 £2.79
One of the earliest varieties. Harvest just 7 weeks after sowing! Compact and high yielding. Recommended for freezing.

Bean (Dwarf French) Seeds – Mascotte
 £2.99
Ideal for growing in window-boxes and pots, and very attractive in flower. Produces good crops of round, extra fine, absolutely stringless pods approximately 14cm in length on plants approximately 40-45cm in height. Easy to harvest because the pods are held well outside the foliage.

Bean (Dwarf French) Seeds – Masterpiece
 £2.99
Traditionally popular. Early maturing and prolific, producing long straight, flat pods to be gathered young and cooked whole.

Bean (Dwarf French) Seeds – The Prince
 £2.99
Bears continuously and crops heavily. Long, slender, flat pods, delicious when young. Specially recommended.

Bean (Dwarf French) Seeds – Sprite
 £2.99
Outstanding dwarf french bean. Completely stringless, dark green round pods. 15cm (6) long.

Bean (Dwarf French) Seeds – Safari
 £2.99
Safari produces straight, very slender round dark green stringless pods about 11-12cm (4-5) in length. Require only a brief cooking time and are best steamed and served whole. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.

Bean (Dwarf French) Seeds – Borlotto Firetongue
 £2.99
An Italian specialty bean that’s ideal for fresh use or as dried seeds (haricots) in a wide range of dishes. The seeds and pods are attractively mottled, and will last throughout winter if stored in airtight jars.

French Bean Extra Fine Dwarf – Eclarel
 £2.99
French Vegetable Seeds from Vilmorin – We’re giving you the chance to try out some varieties and bring colour and flavour of the French country market to your own garden, allotment and dinner plate. Seeds supplied in French packs with separate English translation. The bright green succulent pods of this stringless bean are of excellent quality and are produced in profusion throughout the summer. Sow from late April to July. Harvest July to September.

Bean (Dwarf French) Seeds – Purple Queen
 £3.99
Delicious in flavour, the pods should be picked young and regularly to encourage cropping over a long period. The pods turn green in boiling water. Recommended by the National Institute of Agricultural Botany.

Bean (Dwarf French) Seeds – Maxi Organic
 £3.99
Easy to pick, tasty, stringless pods.

Dwarf French Bean Seeds – Marbel
 £3.99
Enjoy Marbels long, marbled pods. They are particularly easy to pick because they are borne at the top of the foliage. High yields over a long period. Sow from late April to July. Harvest July to September.French Vegetable Seeds from Vilmorin – We’re giving you the chance to try out some varieties and bring colour and flavour of the French country market to your own garden, allotment and dinner plate. Seeds supplied in French packs with separate English translation.

Bean (Dwarf French Kidney) Seeds – Yin Yang
 £3.99
Can be eaten young or left to dry. Great for soups and cassseroles. Use seeds as ornaments too!

French Bean Dwarf Plants – Safari
 £7.99
Straight, very slender round dark green stringless pods about 11-12cm (4-5) in length. Dwarf variety. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.

Bean (French Dwarf) Plants – Eclarel
 £7.99
This extra fine dwarf French bean produces a profusion of succulent green pods which are prized by top chefs! The bright green succulent pods of this stringless bean are of excellent quality and are produced in profusion throughout the summer. Harvest July to September. Can also be left to dry on the plant and harvested late in the season as a haricot bean. Height 60cm.

Bean Dwarf French Plants – F1 Mascotte
 £7.99
Bred by our own group, this french bean is well adapted to growing in windowboxes and pots. It produces good crops of round, extra fine, absolutely stringless pods that are easy to harvest because they are held well outside the foliage. Dwarf variety.