Bush Beans
Ideal for an early crop, and the best for more exposed sites or if you don’t want to be bothered with making supports.
‘Aguilon’ Green Bush Bean
We're so pleased to offer this old favourite once again after a gap of several seasons - it was dropped commercially a few years back but we have finally found another grower, and this time even organic. Particularly long pods - up to 20 cm - produced in large numbers, this delicious variety from France is chosen both for flavour and heavy cropping.
Pods are held above the leaves , so easy to find when picking. We like it a lot.
approx 80 seed, organic. £3.10
‘Castandel’ Green Bush Bean
An excellent green bush bean from France chosen for earliness and productivity. Very tasty too, and it makes so many beans, we just love it! Stringless and tender pods produced in large numbers , this is our reccommendation for a normal green bean.
Long green pods. A really good early bush bean.
approx 100 seed £2.99
‘Maxidor’ Yellow Bush Bean
An excellent yellow bush bean that makes really large numbers of fat yellow pods on compact plants.
A long-standing favourite and the one we plant every year for our own kitchen - large yields, they keep their yellow colour after cooking, and look really pretty on the plate or in a salad, with a particularly good flavour.
Excellent bush bean making lots of fat yellow pods.
approx 120 seed £2.99
‘Purple Queen’ Bush Bean
This is stunningly productive - in our trials it was almost silly how the plants were laden with beans - the picture shows just one branch of one plant!
They are beautiful; with purple pods, flowers and stems, and the beans are easy to find when picking as they stand out against the foliage.
Very vigourous plants, make lots of delicious beans.
approx 80-90 seed £2.95
‘Marvel of Piemonte’ Stripey Bush Bean - HEAVY CROPPING
This bush bean from north Italy is chosen for its amazing appearance - the pale greeny-yellow pods have purple stripes!
Also early to crop and properly stringless. It has a really good buttery texture when cooked, and we have discovered it also holds well on the plant and doesn't go stringy or tough for ages, even if you miss some when picking.
Flat pods, streaked with purple, on a yellow background, great flavour.
about 90 seed £2.90
‘Stregonta’ Stringless Bush Bean -DUAL USE!
An OUTSTANDING early bush borlotti bean from Italy, colourful pods with red stripes on a pale green background, ready in about 70 days from germination.
It is very quick to set, and the pods can be picked and the whole thing is stringless and delicious just like any french bean, a handful pictured here.
But then you can let them get bigger and use the seeds shelled out as fresh beans for cooking - when they have stong red spashes - just boil for 20 mins or so without soaking. Later the seeds dry to a darker tan colour for storage overwinter.
It's very unusual in that it is dual-purpose for fresh and drying/shelly use - excellent picked as a normal green bean , and then any that get bigger can be easten as seeds, which are delicious and so big that they go a bit square from being squeezed into the pods.
50 seed £2.97
Admires’ Flat Bush Bean -DELICIOUS
An absolutely delicious flat-podded dwarf french bean. The pods do look like a runner bean but don’t be fooled, it really is a French Bean & as such much quicker and easier to grow. This one got rave feedback in our taste tests.
Early and very productive, with very tender pods.
approx 100 seed £2.85