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French Beans - Vegetables
French Bean : Mantra 1 packet An early prolific cropper, suitable for growing either under glass or outdoors. Producing sweet flavoured flat, mid green stringless pods up to 25cm (10in) long. Resistant to Bean Common Mosaic Virus. |
French Bean : Purple Teepee 1 packet 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. |
French Bean : Purple Teepee 1 packet 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. |
French Bean : The Prince 1 packet Long slim oval 16cm (6½in) pods with a magnificent flavour. Excellent for freezing and widely grown for exhibition. |
Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Bush Bean : Fagiola Nani Friverde 1 packet A ‘Kenyan type’ of compact bush habit to 50cm, producing an abundance of slender, round, dark green pods up to 11cm in length. Pick regularly for heaviest crops. Stands hot weather well. Resistant to bean mosaic and anthracnose. |
Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Bush Bean : Fagioli Nani Creso 1 packet Attractive bright yellow, slender, stringless pencil podded ‘waxpods’ on vigorous bushy plants. Early maturing and crops heavily over a long season if picked regularly. |
Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Bush Bean : Fagioli Nani Impero Bianco (Cannellino Bean) 1 packet Compact plants producing pale cream-yellow pods containing 6 or 7 large white ‘cannelloni beans’, essential for a range of specific dishes. Plants quite late maturing, usually grown for the fully mature seeds harvested in the autumn. |
Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Bush Bean : Fagioli Nani Splendido (Borlotto Bean) 1 packet Typical Borlotto. The 13-14cm, quite broad pods are attractive red splashed cream, bulging with 6-7 cream with red streaked seeds. Pods can be harvested immature but it is usually grown for the full sized seeds for harvesting in the autumn. |
Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Climbing Bean : Fagioli Rampicanti Dolcio del Metro 1 packet Vigorous plants producing a tremendous crop of very long, thin green pods up to 45cm in length, hence their name. Also known as ‘asparagus bean’. Flavour is at its best when picked young and tender. |
Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Climbing Bean : Fagioli Rampicanti Eden 1 packet Produces a heavy crop over a long picking season if picked regularly whilst young and tender. Pods 25-27cm long, pale green, flat, 2cm broad and stringless. |
Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Climbing Bean : Fagioli Rampicanti Marengo 1 packet Attractive pale yellow ‘waxpod’, producing 20cm pods about 2cm broad. Very early to harvest first pods and a prolific cropper over a long season if picked regularly whilst young and tender. |
Vita Sementi Italian Seeds : Bean : Climbing Bean : Favioli Rampicanti Corona (Spagna Bean) 1 packet Long, mid green, slightly curved broad pods containing 5-6 large white ‘butter beans’. Pods can be harvested immature but it is usually grown for the full sized seeds for harvesting in the autumn. |
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