Dwarf Bean Seeds

High yielding variety with dark green pods. Good disease resistance. Excellent in green salads or as a side dish.

Quick maturing crops of pods which form above the leaves for easier harvesting. Delicious steamed, boiled or stir fried.

Compact plants producing tasty, stringless, purple, slender 'filet' beans about 15cm long over a long picking season. A decorative ornamental edible when planted in containers, or a few plants in the flowering border. Height 60cm.

Matures early and is productive over a long season. Of great value for fresh use or freezing. Pods are fleshy, meaty, stringless, fibreless and snap cleanly.

Large crops of delicious and fleshy, stringless pods up to 15cm long are early to mature so ideal for sowing in succession. When cooked the deep purple pods will turn a striking dark green.

Large crops of delicious flat podded slicing beans with white seeds that are slow to develop. The sturdy upright plants show resistance to Bean Common Mosaic Virus and Anthracnose and tolerance to hot conditions.

Produces high yields of tasty, very dark green, glossy beans with thick fleshy pods which are ideal for slicing. Plants show resistance to Bean Common Mosaic Virus, Halo Blight and Antracnose.

Uniform, slender 'Kenyan' type beans on sturdy open plants for easier harvesting. Shows good resistance to Bean Common Mosaic Virus, Halo Blight and Anthracnose.

A good quality 'Romano' type, the strong and vigorous upright plants produce good yields of broad, flat 'wax' beans. The tasty succulent pods develop their colour early and are perfect for slicing.

Considered as a delicacy in Europe, some of the tastiest shell beans you could eat. The beautiful, small beans should be shelled from the pods when they are still moist and tender. Treat them like a garden pea or a baby broad bean. Mature beans can also be shelled, dried and stored. Once tried we are convinced they become addictive.

Pods are held above the foliage, so remain clean of soil and easy to pick. Plants show resistance to Bean Common Mosaic Virus. The delicious pods turn a rich dark green when cooked

A very productive and easy to pick variety with beans setting over a long period. The pods are held high above the foliage, keeping them clean and preventing damage. Plants are ideal for container growing.

To be shelled when mature, the top quality, plump beans have a wonderful gourmet flavour and creamy texture when cooked. The variety is well known in Europe for its productivity and generously sized shelled beans.

An attractive dual purpose variety with light green flattened, stringless pods to use sliced when fresh or shelled when mature. Produces 4-5 large and delicious, glossy black beans per pod.

A striking and versatile bean. Can be used as a 'green bean' when young and tender, or dried for haricot beans. When mature, beans have red flecks on a pale green background.

Considered as a delicacy in Europe, some of the tastiest shell beans you could eat. The beautiful, small beans should be shelled from the pods when they are still moist and tender. Treat them like a garden pea or a baby broad bean. Mature beans can also be shelled, dried and stored. Once tried we are convinced they become addictive.

Part of the Alan Titchmarsh Collection

Aptly named as one of the quickest beans to produce pods to pick. As well as being very early. Speedy is also very productive. Fleshy, mid-green pods, 13-14cm (5-6in) long. Very early for your first pick of the season.

Bumper crops of straight, stringless, dark-green pencil pods, 12-14cm (5 to 5- inches) long, of outstanding flavour. Heavy yields can be encouraged if picked regularly. This variety also has resistance against the problems of Common Bean Mosaic Virus and Anthracnose.

Early maturing, waxy yellow beans on compact plants. Pods are slender, straight and stringless reaching up to 13cm (5 inches) long. Early to mature with a long cropping period. Plants are resistant to Common Bean Mosaic Virus and Anthracnose.

An early maturing Kenyan-type bean which produces heavy crops of slim, dark green 10-12cm (4-5in) stringless pods over a long season. Easy to harvest as the plant has an upright, open habit. Resistant to Halo Blight, Mosaic Virus and Anthracnose, it is the perfect choice for organic gardeners, as Opera has no problems with Botrytis.

One of the first stringIess, round podded, waxpods, introduced circa. 1900. Quite vigorous plant habit. Golden yellow pods, 12-18cm (5-7in) long. Black seeded, reliable tor earlier sowings and throughout the summer. Height 35-50cm (14-20in).

At last, a purple podded bean which bears its pods above the main foliage. This makes picking easier and ensures improved cropping of long straight pods with less soil splashing etc. Pods are approximately 6in long, stringless and slender with that intangible but appreciated zing to the flavour that many vegetable growers agree only comes to the purple podded types. Pods turn brilliant emerald green in boiling water. Quick maturing.

A superb variety with all the best characteristics of modern runner beans, but on dwarf plants. Early to crop, often before standard types, with a good yield of tasty, long, straight, stringless pods, held above the soil to avoid disease. Ideal for small gardens, large containers and borders where its bicoloured flowers of red and white make an attractive addition.

Suitable For Freezing

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Popular, established variety providing good, reliable crops. Tasty, succulent, almost stringless pods on compact, bushy plants. Excellent source of folate, iron and magnesium.

A very popular Italian variety, these 'Fire Tongue' pods contain 5-6 freckled beans. They can be picked as dwarf beans or left to mature and the beans shelled and dried.

Prolific crops of thick, fleshy, rounded pale yellow pods. Reputed to be one of the best for flavour, even when frozen, an American heirloom variety that is still just as popular today.