Peas & Beans
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Bean: 'Yin Yang Bean'
'Orka Bean' or 'Calypso Bean'€3.45The ' Yin Yang Bean', also known as the Orca or Calypso bean. This bean is a reminder to stay zen with your gardening, with its distinctive black and white symbol on the seed. A great soup or baked bean, this compact variety grows to a height of around 45cm producing loads of beans with a mild delicious flavour. -
Bean: Broad Bean 'Aquadulce'
Broad Beans, Fava beans or Horse Beans.
Heritage (Pre 1913)€2.70
Aquadulce is highly prolific and easy to grow, and remains one of the most delicious in terms of flavour and texture. It can be sown anytime from autumn until spring and is universally recognised as being best hardy broad bean for an autumn sowing. RHS AGM -
Bean: Broad Bean 'Bunyards Exhibition'
Broad Beans, Fava beans or Horse Beans
Heritage (English, pre 1835)€2.35“Bunyards Exhibition” broad beans are a favorite of Chefs worldwide and the most popular old variety with home gardeners because of their beautiful colour and unique flavour. This reliable early English white longpod can be sown in autumn in mild areas and successionally sown throughout the spring.
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Bean: Broad Bean 'Eleonora' Organic
Broad Beans, Fava beans or Horse Beans.€3.50
'Broad Bean ‘Eleonora’ is a new improved selection of the popular Express variety. The fast growing plants are not too tall and produce long pods that are well packed with white beans. But it is the beans’ great flavour that makes ‘Eleonora’ stand out. Organic Seeds -
Bean: Broad Bean 'Grano Violetto'
Aka 'Extra precoce a Grano Violetto'
Heritage (Italian)€2.35Grano Violetto is a unique and colourful early maturing broad bean. This hardy variety is suitable for sowing from October. The plants grow to 90cm tall and are highly productive even at the lower parts of the plant. Harvested while still green, the purple coloration appears once the beans are dried. -
Bean: Broad Bean 'Monica'
Broad Beans, Fava or Horse Beans.€2.50Broad Bean 'Monica' is probably the quickest maturing spring sown bean currently available. This vigorous, high yielding variety is ideal for early, mid and late sowings and can be sown as late as May. The plants produce a heavy yield with 5 to 6 very large, succulent white beans in hang down pods.
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Bean: Broad Bean 'Super Aquadulce' Organic
Broad Beans, Fava beans or Horse Beans.
Heritage (Pre 1913)€3.05 'Super Aquadulce' is highly prolific and easy to grow, and one of the most delicious in terms of flavour and texture. It can be sown anytime from autumn until spring and is universally recognised as being best hardy broad bean for an autumn sowing. 90 days. -
Bean: Broad Bean 'The Sutton'
Dwarf variety. Broad Beans, Fava beans.
Heritage (English)€2.35Out of stock
Growing to only 40cm tall, The Sutton produces a huge amount of tasty beans for such small plants, it is ideal for small gardens and with beautiful white flowers they would not look out of place if you grew them amongst flowers in a border. RHS AGM -
Bean: Broad Bean 'Witkiem'
Broad Beans, Fava or Horse Beans.€2.35 Broad Bean 'Witkiem' is the most versatile of vegetables and, as Hannibal Lector says it also goes perfectly with a glass of Chianti. Early to mature, it produces a good crop of plump, well filled pods with big tasty beans. Ready to harvest from June into September. -
Bean: French Bean 'Blauhilde' Organic
Climbing French Bean, Pole or Tall variety
Heritage (German 1800's)€3.50 Well known, reliable and attractive, 'Blauhilde' is an extremely purple-skinned climbing French bean that has excellent flavour. Sown from April to July, they can be harvested continuously through to late autumn. Organic Seed. -
Bean: French Bean 'Blue Lake Stringless'
Climbing French Bean, Pole or Tall variety
Heritage (1885)€1.75Out of stock
Blue Lake is a classic choice for early beans of highest quality eating. A wonderfully prolific French climbing bean that does well even in adverse weather, the dark green pods remain stringless and fibreless at all stages of growth. They are tender and rich, and filled with white seeds that are of incomparable flavour.
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Bean: French Bean 'Borlotto Lingua di Fuoco'
Climbing French Bean, Pole or Tall variety
Heritage (Italian 1880's) ‘Tongue of Fire’€2.25Loved for their excellent flavour, colour and versatility, Borlotto Lingua di Fuoco, whose pink-stippled beauty makes one dream of summer days, sitting on a shaded terrace shelling them ready for a quick supper, knowing they need nothing but a quick boil and lick of olive oil; a pure fast pleasure when fresh.
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Bean: French Bean 'Borlotto Suprema Nano'
Dwarf French Bean, Bush variety€2.65Out of stock
Italy's noble bean grows in cream and claret flecked pods, it is a lovely tasting and strikingly beautiful bean. A dwarf variety growing to just 60cm, Borlotto Suprema is suitable where space is limited, in containers on balconies or as a border plant in small gardens.
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Bean: French Bean 'Red Swan'
Dwarf French Bean, Bush variety€3.30French Bean 'Red Swan' is an heirloom stringless bean with burgundy red pods. The plants grow up to around 50cm tall and are highly productive, with good flavour the beans mature in just 50 to 60 days. For a regular and steady supply of beautiful beans, sow a few seeds every couple of weeks, from April to July.
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Bean: French Bean 'Stanley'
Dwarf French Bean, Bush variety€2.20Out of stock
'Stanley' is a white flowering, white seeded variety that reliably delivers impressive yields of top quality beans. Resistant to Halo Blight, Anthracnose and BCMV. it reliably delivers very abundant yields of long, straight pods and top quality beans. -
Bean: French Bean 'Stokkievitsboon' Organic
Climbing French Bean, Pole or Tall variety€3.25 French Bean ‘Stokkievitsboon’ produces very attractive pink speckled beans which resemble eggs of the lapwing bird. The highly ornamental pods look wonderful in the garden, and are stunning chopped into salads. With a creamy taste and a soft nutty consistency, it is quite the most beautiful bean in the world. Organic Seeds. -
Bean: French Bean 'Weinländerin La Vigneronne' Organic
Climbing French Bean, Pole or Tall variety
Heritage (Land race from Switzerland)€3.50 'Weinländerin La Vigneronne' pole beans are a classic from Switzerland, cultivated and preserved by the country women and known as 'Wine country beans' the distinctive pods are marbled and speckled with purple, as if stained by drops of wine. Organic Seed. -
Bean: Runner Bean 'Scarlet Emperor' Organic
Runner Bean
Heritage (Introduced in 1633)€2.95Scarlet Emperor is grown both for the flowers and the sweet pods. It produces large sprays of brilliant red flowers that contrast against deep green foliage. This easy-to-grow bean needs little tending to produce 38cm long, plump, juicy pods. Organic Seed. -
Bean: Runner Bean 'Sunset'
Runner Bean€3.45Runner beans are all attractive enough for flower gardens or patios, but the 'Sunset Runner Bean' is in a class by itself. The luminous peach to shell-pink blossoms are absolutely beautiful and will look equally at home in your vegetable plot or your flower borders. The pods are fleshy, straight, smooth, and almost stringless when young.
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Bean: Runner Bean, Dwarf 'Hestia'
Dwarf Runner Bean€1.95Hestia is a superb variety with all the best characteristics of modern runner beans, but on dwarf plants. Very disease resistant and easy to grow, Grow in containers on balconies or patio, or as a border plant in small gardens. Hestia is the runner bean for gardeners with limited space and a love of bright colour!
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Pea 'Ambassador'
Second early / Maincrop€2.20Out of stock
Pea ‘Ambassador’ is a robust growing, short-vined pea that produces masses of large, blunt-ended pods containing up to nine sweet and tender peas of great quality. With outstanding resistance to mildew it is ideally suited for sowing late in the season. -
Pea 'Blauwschokker' Organic
Ezetha's Krombeks Purple Podded Pea€3.05 ‘Blauwschokker’ produce good yields of succulent, bright green peas with an abundance of red and violet flowers are followed by deep purple pods. Dual purpose it is delicious when harvested young as mangetout or can be left to mature to shell the delicious green peas. Organic Seeds. -
Pea 'Buddy' Organic
First early, Low-growing variety€2.95 Pea ‘Buddy' is a popular variety producing excellent yields that mature early in the season. A neat and compact variety that can be grown with minimal supports, the pods are borne in profusion with each straight pod containing 6 to 8 tasty peas. Organic Seeds. -
Pea 'Douce Provence' Organic
First early, Low-growing variety€3.25 Pea 'Douce Provence' is a compact variety which is extremely versatile. Consistent and reliable it produces large crops of sweet and succulent peas. Strictly speaking it is a round seeded first early variety but it can also be grown as an over-winter pea to produce of the earliest harvests of the season. Organic Seeds.
