A vigorous and delicious type of early main-crop pea with good resistance to powdery mildew and fusarium wilt, and which is reliable in all soil types, producing large crops of blunt, double pods averaging 8-9 peas per pod. (Click for more details)

"Tongues of fire" is an Italian climbing French bean, with attractive red-purple and green speckled pods. This versatile bean can be cropped young and the pods eaten as flageolets or allowed to mature when the ripe beans can be eaten as ... (Click for more details)

This drought-resistant gardeners' favourite produces a high yield of string-less, full flavoured beans which retain their sweet taste and tender texture when cooked or they may be used in summer salads when used raw. If left on the plant, thei... (Click for more details)

This second-early/maincrop produces a fine harvest of slightly curved, boat-shaped pods, which give the variety its name, which are absolutely crammed full of sweet flavoured peas. The plants grow to 30 inches and are semi-leafless making picking ... (Click for more details)

This favourite, white flowered, few white-seeded, totally stringless runner bean has long, tender, broad pods up to 30cm long, and will bear very heavy crops, even from a small area, and especially in dry conditions. A superb vegetable! (Click for more details)

An early cropping variety of runner bean giving a high yield of very long, smooth, slender beans, up to 20 inches long, of excellent shape and colour. The brilliant red flowers are an added bonus. (Click for more details)

A most attractive dwarf French bean with distinctive golden yellow pods, held in bunches well above the foliage for easy picking. If sown every 40-50 days throughout the spring and summer it will give a steady succession of tender beans. (Click for more details)

A superb disease resistant, British-bred, dwarf French bean with vivid-green, 6" pods which produce delicious, succulent round beans.(resistant to Pseudomonas, Anthracnose and Common bean mosiac virus) (Click for more details)

If you're going to sow only one pea, sow Pea 'Hurst Green Shaft'. A sweet-tasting, wrinkle-seeded, tall, super heavy-yielding variety, with long, 4-5 inch pods, with 9-11 peas in a pod, and double podded too, and it resists downy milde... (Click for more details)

These superb long, slim and fleshy runner beans tolerates heat well and are completely string-less. They give a heavy crop of tender delicious dark green pods over a very long season and received the RHS 1999 Award of Garden Merit. (Click for more details)