April
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Basil, Sweet Genovese. Organic
Basil. Heritage (Italian, Pre 1879)€1.95
Sweet Genovese is often associated with Italian cuisine. Basil is native to the region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. This delicate herb has with an intense, spicy-sweet, aroma and a slight anise-like undertone. Organic Seed. -
Basil, Thai Basil, Organic
Bai Horapa€2.45Thai Basil is commonly used in the cuisines of Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. It has has a stronger taste and an identifiable liquorice flavour which is more stable under high or extended cooking temperatures than that of sweet basil. Organic Seed. -
Bean: 'Yin Yang Bean'
'Orka Bean' or 'Calypso Bean'€3.75The ' 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)€2.95
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 'Grano Violetto'
Aka 'Extra precoce a Grano Violetto'
Heritage (Italian)€2.25Grano Violetto is a unique and colourful early maturing broad bean. This very 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.
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Bean: Broad Bean 'Witkiem'
Broad Beans, Fava or Horse Beans.€1.95Out of stock
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'
Climbing French Bean, Pole or Tall variety
Heritage (German 1800's)€2.85French Bean 'Blauhilde' well known German heritage variety that produces attractive purple-skinned pods that have excellent flavour. The entire plant is pretty, purple flowers and purple stems, they produce myriads of flowers from which large, long 20 to 25cm (8 to 10in), fleshy and stringless pods develop.
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Bean: French Bean 'Blauhilde' Organic
Climbing French Bean, Pole or Tall variety
Heritage (German 1800's)€3.40 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 'Borlotto Suprema Nano'
Dwarf French Bean, Bush variety€2.25Italy'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€3.95French 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 '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: French Bean Dwarf 'Gordonia'
Extra Fine, Dwarf French or Bush Bean.€2.75Out of stock
French Bean 'Gordonia' is a beautiful extra fine, dwarf or Bush Bean that produces slender, dark green pods that have good texture and taste and are tender enough to eat raw. They mature just 8 to 10 weeks from sowing, are very easy to grow and give superb yields for a small amount of space, outlay and effort.
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Bean: French Bean Dwarf 'Maxi'
French Bean, Dwarf French Bean€2.95 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€2.45‘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 'Tendergreen'
French Bean, Dwarf French Bean€2.45Very reliable even in variable conditions, Dwarf French Bean seeds 'Tendergreen' is a medium long pencil podded type that produces good yields of medium sized, 15cm pods that have good texture and taste. Very easy to grow, they give superb yields for a small amount of space, outlay and effort.
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Bean: French Bean, Climbing 'Blue Lake Stringless'
Climbing French Bean, Pole or Tall variety
Heritage (1885)€2.25Blue 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, Climbing 'Cobra'
Climbing French Bean.€3.30 Cobra is one of the most reliable French beans around. This prolific cropper produces heavy yields of long, straight sweetly-flavoured beans over a long period. The stringless pods grow up to 20cm long. RHS AGM. -
Bean: French Bean, Dwarf 'Faraday', Organic
French Bean, Dwarf French Bean€2.95 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: Runner Bean 'Lady Di', Organic
Runner Bean€3.95
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 'Mergoles'
White Seeded, Stringless Runner Bean€3.95Runner Bean ‘Mergoles' produces decorative clear white blooms and white beans. This high quality variety sets well in almost all conditions and produces abundant yields of delicious, stringless, fleshy pods, which can be eaten fresh or frozen, or left on the plants to mature and harvest the mature creamy white seeds.
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Bean: Runner Bean 'Painted Lady'
Scarlet Runner Bean
Heirloom (1633)€3.25An improved selection of this well known and much loved variety, Runner Bean 'Painted Lady' is well know, as much for its astonishing bicolour, coral red and creamy white blooms as for the superior beans produced. The beans are deliciously thick and meaty with a sweet balanced flavour.
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Bean: Runner Bean 'Scarlet Emperor' Organic
Runner Bean
Heritage (Introduced in 1633)€3.95Scarlet 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 'Streamline'
Scarlet Runner Bean€3.25When 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, ‘Streamline’ gives heavy yields of fantastic tasty pods giving you effortless food for weeks.
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Bean: Runner Bean 'Sunset'
Runner Bean€4.50Runner 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.
