This mixture of three dwarf beans will give you unbeatable garden performance, ensuring you a heavy crop through mid summer and you'll still be picking beans well into October. Easy to pick on upright stems. All with good disease resistance. This collection comprises:Dwarf Bean 'Opera', Dwarf Bean 'Laguna' and Dwarf Bean 'Sansoucy'
A favourite amongst vegetable growers, climbing French bean 'Cobra' is quite possibly the tastiest there is, and it has wonderful mauve flowers too! Cropping continuously over a long season from July, you'll get heavy crops of stringless green pods 18cm (7in) long that have exceptionally good flavour. Delicious al dente, and packed full of vitamins A and K, minerals and fibre, and they freeze very well too, so you can enjoy your home grown crop into next year. Being a climbing French bean, 'Cobra' will require a sturdy support that's at least 6ft tall. Cane wigwams are traditionally used, made by placing four or five canes 6 inches apart around the plant, tied together at the top to give a strong structure that's an attractive feature in the vegetable garden, and works well if you're growing your beans in pots too. If you're growing long rows of beans, place canes 6 inches apart either side of the row and tie them to a horizontal cane at the top to make a tent shape. After a little help, your beans will twine their way naturally over the support. Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence and enjoy a top quality harvest. Supplied as 6 plug plants, ready for growing on or planting. Growing to 2m (6½ft), with beans ready to harvest from June to September.
Dwarf French Bean ?Mistic? produces an abundance of dark, purple-black pods from as early as June. With regular picking it will keep cropping right through to October! These compact plants make an attractive crop, with purple tinted foliage and pale violet flowers.
Dwarf Bean 'Sonesta' is an early maturing variety producing waxy yellow beans on compact plants. The colourful pods are slender, straight and stringless, reaching up to 13cm (5) long. This variety is resistant to Bean Mosaic Virus and Anthracnose. Height: 45cm (18). Spread: 30cm (12)
A heritage variety with stunning crimson flowers, followed by a good crop of short, upright pods and delicious beans. Broad Bean Crimson Flowered is ideal for growing in containers as well as in the garden, or as an ornamental edible in the flower border
A gardener's favourite for over 100 years for its reliable performance and heavy crop of long pods in most soils. The pods contain an average of 6 beans, with some up to 8 seeded. Broad Bean Bunyards Exhibition has a very good flavour and excellent for freezing. Prefers well-drained, moist, rich soil
Be the first to harvest delicious broad beans! Ten years of breeding have produced De Monica, the earliest-maturing broad bean variety from a spring sowing. Ready to harvest at the same time as wintersown variety Aquadulce. A strong root system and an upright plant habit with 2-3 stems per plant produce high yields of 15cm (6in) pods with 4-5 large seeds per pod
Runner Bean Firestorm is an outstanding new variety that has been bred to be self-fertile, high-yielding and all-weather resistant. It will produce an abundance of sweet flavoured, stringless pods, typically 25 x 2.5cm over a long cropping period from July to October. They are best picked young when the pods are stringless and at their sweetest and most tender.#html-body [data-pb-style="60599B2141379"]{justify-content: flex-start; display: flex; flex-direction: column; background-position: left top; background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: scroll; border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px;}#html-body [data-pb-style="60599B2141389"]{border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}
A gardener’s favourite, due to is reliability, beautiful colour and unique flavour. This variety is heavy cropping, suitable for most soil types and is also ideal for freezing. For best results, pick the beans when they are starting to show through the pod and whilst the scar on the end of the bean is still white. This variety will require support from canes.
Dwarf Bean 'Boston' bears straight, round 15cm (6) long pods with a dark green colour and an excellent flavour. These sturdy, upright plants produce heavy crops over a long picking season. This RHS AGM variety is ideal for growing in containers. Height: 45cm (18). Spread: 30cm (12)
An RHS AGM variety with good resistance to Bean Mosaic Virus and Anthracnose. Dwarf Bean 'Nomad' produces bumper crops of straight, stringless, dark-green pods reaching up to 12cm (5) long, with an outstanding flavour. Pick regularly while beans are young and tender to encourage heavier yields. Height: 45cm (18). Spread: 30cm (12)
Wonderfully flavoured purple beans that turn a rich dark green when cooked. The pods are produced in abundance on the top of the plant making for easy picking and helping pods to develop long and straight as well as keeping them cleaner and free of disease.Easy to grow and versatile, peas and beans make a delicious and nutritious addition to any meal. As well as being a traditional side, legumes also provide a terrific source of protein for a vegan diet. Peas and broad beans prefer cool conditions but need to be grown in full sun or partial shade. Short on space? Many varieties are well suited to growing in plant pots. Ideally you do not want to overcook either peas or beans, keeping just a touch of crispness.Characteristics:When to Sow: April-May indoors, outdoors May- July When To Harvest: June-October indoors, outdoors July-October Soil Type: Cultivated soilAdvice: Make and early or late sowing for the longest harvest Packet Contents: Average 100 seedsLatin name: Phaseolus vulgarisTransplanting: Will need transplanting Johnsons' premium ranges of flower and vegetable packet seeds feature captivating flowers and authentic vegetables from around the world. No matter what the size of your growing space, either a spacious garden or a limited patio, the high quality of Johnsons' seeds cater for any needs.Explore more of our horticultural range; we have a wide selection of gardening essentials available from compost to plant pots Have a query or can't find something you're looking for? We receive new deliveries every week, so if the item you wish to purchase is currently out of stock, please contact our Customer Services Team and we may be able to reserve the items you require.Please note: Plants and seeds are classed as perishable goods and are excluded from our returns policy. This does not affect your statutory rights. See our Cancellation & Returns page for further details. In the unlikely event that you receive your goods damaged or you have been sent the incorrect item, please report your issues to our customer service team as soon as possible. Perishable goods cannot be returned unless we have sent the wrong item, or they are damaged.