To enjoy at their best, pick when young and tender, they require only a brief cooking time and are best steamed and served whole. The beans are flavoursome and versatile in cookery and freeze very well. The plants need no thinning, transplanting or training as other vegetables do and like their climbing cousins, they are also self fertile and ideal for growing under cover early or late in the season. The succulent fleshy pods bursting with flavour turn bright green with cooked, they are best steamed to retain colour.ĭwarf French beans are one of the most popular garden vegetables, very easy to grow, they give superb yields for a small amount of space, outlay and effort, and are very quick to give results. you can usually be eating beans 12 weeks after sowing the seeds.
For a regular and steady supply, sow a few seeds every couple of weeks, from April to July.
This wonderful heirloom variety has tan coloured seeds which can also be used as a dry bean in soups and stews. The colourful pods and pretty bicolour, pink and white flowers make French Bean ‘Red Swan’ very ornamental and a good choice for large pots and containers. A bush or dwarf cultivar, the plants will grow to around 50cm (20in) tall. A cross between a purple snap bean and pinto bean, the vigorous plants produce high yields of Romano-type, flattened pods that are meaty and flavourful. French Bean 'Red Swan' is an heirloom stringless bean with burgundy red pods.
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