Filet beans are a gourmet bean, thinner and chosen for flavour. Pick small, lightly steam and serve with butter. They can be left to grow full size as well.
‘Cupidon’ Filet Bush Bean
A filet-type, with long slender pods. An exquisite variety that produces a huge number of tender thin green pods all summer, starting early, and continuing cropping well after the others have finished. It has a particularly good flavour used raw in salads. The beans also stay stringless as they get to full size and it makes a good normal french bean, with a particularly good flavour raw.
Sadly, it does not make many seeds and this is unfortunately reflected in the price/packet size - but if you can afford it, it is a fantastic bean.
A special, gourmet early/maincrop filet variety.
about 80 seed £3.26
‘Dior’ Yellow Filet Bush Bean
This recent addition to the catalogue is an early, yellow filet. The plants are small yet make a LOT of slender & tender pods, in an excellent bright yellow colour. As the beans are slim you only need to cook them very briefly, preserving the colour and flavour. A real treat!
Pick small as a filet or leave to get bigger (if you can resist eating them all straight away)
approx 150 seed, organic. £2.99