Peas & Beans
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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)€2.10“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 'Grano Violetto'
Aka 'Extra precoce a Grano Violetto'
Heritage (Italian)€2.34Grano 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.€2.22Broad 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)€3.06
'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)€2.34 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.€2.10 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 Dwarf 'Borlotto Suprema Nano'
Dwarf French Bean, Bush variety€2.34Italy'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 Dwarf 'Maxi' Organic
French Bean, Dwarf French Bean€2.94Out of stock
This French Bean may be dwarf but , oh la la – do they taste good! 'Maxi' is an outstanding variety producing high yields of long, slender pods that are stringless and full of flavour. Very easy to grow they give superb yields for a small amount of space, outlay and effort. -
Bean: French Bean Dwarf 'Purple Queen'
French Bean, Dwarf Bean€1.98‘Purple Queen’ French beans are the sort of fun, sassy crop every stylish gardener wants to grow in their good-looking veg plot. They race up their supports, burst into shocking magenta flower, and then produce hundreds of gorgeous regal purple beans which are a pure pleasure to eat.
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Bean: French Bean, Dwarf 'Faraday'
French Bean, Dwarf French Bean€2.22French Bean ‘Faraday’ is one of the best, if not the best new Dwarf French Bean to become available for some time. A white bean variety that have excellent flavour, it produces extremely tender, uniform long, dark-green pencil pods. Harvest from late May right through to September.
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Bean: French Bean, Dwarf 'Faraday', Organic
French Bean, Dwarf French Bean€2.70 French Bean ‘Faraday’ is one of the best, if not the best new Dwarf French Bean to become available for some time. A white bean variety that have excellent flavour, it produces extremely tender, uniform long, dark-green pencil pods. Harvest from late May right through to September. Organic Seeds -
Bean: French Bean, Dwarf 'Speedy' Organic
French Bean, Dwarf French Bean€2.94Out of stock
French Bean 'Speedy' is one of the earliest and quickest beans to produce crops and is especially suited to late sowings. They are ideal for growing in patio containers or the vegetable plot and can be sown from late May to July. Harvest 60 days June to October. -
Bean: French Bean, Dwarf 'Sprite'
French Bean, Dwarf French Bean€1.98 Sprite is a lovely, elegant variety, producing exquisite smooth pencil thin pods on bushy, compact plants which need no support. The beans are the ‘filet’ type, very slender round dark green stringless pods. Generously produced and very tender. -
Bean: French Bean, Dwarf 'Stanley'
French Bean, Dwarf French Bean€2.22'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 Climbing 'Blue Lake Stringless'
Climbing French Bean.
Heritage (1885)€1.74Blue 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 Climbing 'Borlotto Lingua di Fuoco'
Climbing French Bean, ‘Tongue of Fire’
Heritage (Italian 1880's)€1.98Loved 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 Climbing 'Cobra' Organic
Climbing French Bean.€2.46 A prolific cropper, French Bean 'Cobra' is a black-seeded variety that produces beans ahead of most other varieties. With lovely pale violet flowers, this vegetable is pretty enough to grow in the ornamental garden, too. RHS AGM. Organic Seed. -
Bean: French Climbing 'Hunter'
Climbing French Bean.€2.22Out of stock
'Hunter' is classic variety of French Bean. Heavy-yielding with a wide, flattened pod, they combine the tenderness and reliability of a French bean and the good, meaty harvest from a Runner. Suitable for use as an early or maincrop, for protected and outdoor production. RHS AGM. -
Bean: Runner Bean 'Firestorm'
Runner Bean€3.18With fewer bees and drier summers, runner bean crops have been recently been unpredictable. Runner Bean 'Firestorm' is the first self-fertile scarlet-flowered runner bean. They set well even in poor weather or high temperatures and produce prolific, smooth pods that are tender and stringless. -
Bean: Runner Bean 'Lady Di'
Runner Bean€2.34Out of stock
Runner bean 'Lady Di' is an exceptional variety that produces long pods of exceptional quality. The long, slender beans are slow to develop seeds, meaning the pods can stay on the plant for longer before they become tough, giving you more time to harvest them. -
Bean: Runner Bean 'Polestar'
Runner Bean€2.34Out of stock
When I was young and idle, I’d dream of a self-refilling pint of cider. Now I’m older I dream of the slightly more realistic horticultural equivalent: beans and plenty of them. Bred for high yields and reliability, ‘Polestar’ gives heavy yields of fantastic tasty stringless pods giving you effortless food for weeks.
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Bean: Runner Bean 'Scarlet Emperor'
Runner Bean
Heritage (Introduced in 1633)€2.70Out of stock
Scarlet Emperor has been a favourite for decades, which is no surprise, it produces heavy crops of long, smooth textured dark-green, pods of excellent flavour. With a richer, more savory flavor than snap beans, the taste of Scarlet Emperor is as sweet as a bean gets.
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Bean: Runner Bean 'White Emergo' Organic
Runner Bean, aka 'Sweet White Runner Bean'€3.30 White Emergo is a vigorous runner bean variety that is better able to withstand adverse weather conditions, producing prolific yields of long, slender pods. The beans are similar to a cannellini beans with a shape almost like a half moon, creamy white and deliciously plump.
