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Vegetable Seeds - Broad Beans

Broad beans, aka Fava beans, are an easy to grow, protein rich staple. Young beans are especially delicious. There's a guide to growing broad beans on the site here: Grow Your Own Broad Beans

Broad Beans Seeds

Broad Beans Seeds

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Bean (Broad Bean) Seeds - Aquadulce Claudia

A long podded, white-seeded tasty broad bean that's early to mature, Aquadulce Claudia is recommended for autumn and winter sowings throughout the U.K. for the earliest crops the following spring and summer.

From Suttons Price: £2.99

Bean (Broad Bean) Seeds - Luz de Otono

A vigorous growing bean that shows good cold resistance for overwintering use. Produces long, high quality pods of tasty beans May-June. May also be sown in July for a November crop in mild areas. For autumn sowing.

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Bean (Broad) - Statissa

Bean (Broad) - Statissa The first broad bean created especially for eating in the pod, to join the mangetout pea! Statissa grows particularly fine beans inside a slim pod that enable you to cook and eat the young beans whole and use the full crop throughout your homemade meals. Nothing goes to waste with this bean! However, when the beans are fully matured, these can also be enjoyed like regular broad beans, making them the perfect dual-use crop/bean. This variety has an excellent flavour and tastes delicious when added to salad, roast dinners and pot pies! Great tolerance to common and soil born diseases too. Sow Feb-May, Harvest Jun-Aug.

From Suttons Price: £2.99

Bean (Broad) Seeds - Crimson Flowered

A high yielding white-seeded variety with unusual crimson flowers.

From Suttons Price: £2.99

Bean (Broad) Seeds - Crimson Flowered

Popular in the 1700s but thought extinct until the last few remaining seeds were donated to the Heritage Seed Library in 1978. These extremely pretty, red to purple flowered broad beans not only produce multi-stemmed plants but each flower is also really fragrant.Perfect to plant in a border as well as a veg garden! In fact, the flowers are so pretty they almost look like orchids in the garden. Growing to around 90cm tall, the plants can even be grown in large containers or raised beds.

From Dobies Price: £2.00

RHS Award of Garden Merit

Bean (Broad) Seeds - De Monica

This superb, early-maturing variety grows well in low daylight conditions, producing bountiful crops of 15cm (6?) long pods filled with 5-7 tasty, creamy-coloured beans per pod. Early maturing, delicious pods Will grow in low light conditions ? ?

From Suttons Price: £2.99

RHS Award of Garden Merit

Bean (Broad) Seeds - Express

An aptly named variety, super fast growing, early maturing and poducing many well-filled pods approximately 20cm (8") long, each?containing 5 or 6 plump, greenish white seeds of very good flavour. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. ? ?

From Suttons Price: £2.99

RHS Award of Garden Merit

Bean (Broad) Seeds - Giant Exhibition Longpod

Pods of good length and beans of delicious flavour. Very successful on show benches. For spring sowing. White seeded variety.

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Bean (Broad) Seeds - Karmazyn

A?must for anyone looking for something different!?Karmazyn is a compact-growing broad bean that will produce a bountiful crop of tasty and colourful beans!

From Suttons Price: £2.99

Bean (Broad) Seeds - Listra

A superb, early maturing broad bean producing a good crop of tasty pale-green beans. Performs well even when sown quite late.

From Suttons Price: £2.99

Bean (Broad) Seeds - Luz de Otono

The first Summer sowing broad bean that will crop that autumn, allowing you to eat fresh broad beans out of season, it can also be Autumn sown for crops the following year.Tolerance to soil born diseases and a versatile variety, producing good crops of sweet, succulent beans.Early maturing

From Dobies Price: £3.49

RHS Award of Garden Merit

Bean (Broad) Seeds - Masterpiece Green Longpod

Excellent length of pod and table quality. A fine green seeded broad bean and also excellent for deep freezing. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.

From Suttons Price: £2.99

Bean (Broad) Seeds - Robin Hood

Never tried broad beans on the patio before? Dwarf variety Robin Hood will provide you with a good crop of nutritious beans that taste far superior to any you'll find at the supermarket! SMALL SPACES made easy! Are you feeling left behind by the ?grow-your-own? revolution because you live in a gardenless apartment or have a postage-stamp-sized patio? Don?t worry: Anyone with a sunny windowsill, patio, or balcony can cultivate home-grown vegetables. In fact, choosing plants that are nutritious, delicious, and attractive is the ultimate way to maximise limited space. We?ve tried and tested these varieties suitable for small spaces and know they?ll succeed, but that?s not to say there aren?t other vegetable seeds that you could try! Dwarf type for small spaces Suitable for summer and autumn cropping Good tolerance to soil borne diseases ?

From Suttons Price: £3.99

RHS Award of Garden Merit

Bean (Broad) Seeds - Witkiem Manita

A fast-growing, quick-maturing broad bean, producing a good harvest of short, well-filled pods. The beans have a high tannin content, giving them particularly good taste. For spring sowing.

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Bean (Mangetout Broad) Seeds - Stereo

Part of the James Wong Grow For Flavour Range. James says - ?The finest tasting of all varieties, pick young pods when tender and eat them like mangetout?. An intensely sweet, nutty flavour. Pick the pods off when they are finger length. Slice them raw into a salad of goat?s cheese and roasted red onions, or grill them whole and scatter with shards of jam?n ib?rico, lemon zest and walnuts. Harvest May-July. ?

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Broad Bean (Organic) Seeds - Super Aguadulce

Superb long pods with 8-9 good flavoured beans in each. These are compact plants, perfect for anyone with limited space. Aguadulce is the hardiest variety for autumn or early spring sowing.Broad beans are a nutritious and valuable source of protein. Bacteria in their roots take up nitrogen from the air, which feeds the plants. Delicious when eaten young and tender.

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Broad Bean (Organic) Seeds - Super Aguadulce

Superb long pods with 8-9 good flavoured beans in each. These are compact plants, perfect for anyone with limited space. Aguadulce is the hardiest variety for autumn or early spring sowing. Broad beans are a nutritious and valuable source of protein. Bacteria in their roots take up nitrogen from the air, which feeds the plants. Delicious when eaten young and tender.

From Suttons Price: £2.99

RHS Award of Garden Merit

Broad Bean Seeds - Aquadulce Claudia

Aquadulce Claudia is an early maturing bean with long pods and high yields. In our opinion, the best broad bean variety for autumn sowing to harvest late the following spring. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. An autumn sowing variety.

From Dobies Price: £2.49

RHS Award of Garden Merit

Broad Bean Seeds - Aquadulce Claudia

Aquadulce Claudia is an early maturing bean with long pods and high yields. In our opinion, the best broad bean variety for autumn sowing to harvest late the following spring. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. An autumn sowing variety.

From Dobies Price: £3.49

Broad Bean Seeds - De Monica

This superb, early-maturing variety grows well in low daylight conditions, producing bountiful crops of 15cm (6) long pods filled with 5-7 tasty, creamy-coloured beans per pod.

From Dobies Price: £2.99

RHS Award of Garden Merit

Broad Bean Seeds - Dreadnought

The pods are of extraordinary size and length, packed with excellent quality white beans. Recommended for exhibition. Suitable for deep freezing.

From Dobies Price: £2.49

RHS Award of Garden Merit

Broad Bean Seeds - Express

Early maturing broad bean, producing many well-filled pods about 20cm (8) long containing 5 or 6 plump, greenish-white seeds. Flavour and quality very good. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Recommended by the National Institute of Agricultural Botany. Suitable for deep freezing.

From Dobies Price: £2.49

RHS Award of Garden Merit

Broad Bean Seeds - Imperial Green Longpod

Produces pods some 38cm (15) long, each containing up to 9 large green beans. We recommend this long podded, heavy cropping broad bean. Suitable for deep freezing. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.

From Dobies Price: £2.49

RHS Award of Garden Merit

Broad Bean Seeds - Imperial Green Longpod

Produces pods some 38cm (15) long, each containing up to 9 large green beans. We recommend this long podded, heavy cropping broad bean. Suitable for deep freezing. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.

From Dobies Price: £3.49

Broad Bean Seeds - Karmazyn

Colourful pink/rose seeds characterise this improved heritage broad bean. Compact plants produce small, upright, easy-to-pick growing pods in profusion. On our trials, visitors loved the taste of this heavy-cropping variety.

From Dobies Price: £2.49

Broad Bean Seeds - Listra

.A superb, early maturing variety producing a good crop of tasty pale green beans. Performs well even when sown quite late.

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Broad Bean Seeds - Oscar

Compact, branching plants that are ideal for patio containers, producing good crops of fine quality, creamish-green beans (approximately 4-5 per pod). The pod set is very uniform and usually it is possible to harvest the plant in one single pick - sow successionally to extend the harvest.

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RHS Award of Garden Merit

Broad Bean Seeds - The Sutton

Bred by Suttons. Can be sown in succession March-July outdoors, and November-February under cloches to produce a very early crop. Recommended for small gardens. Sown as instructed, a packet of seed is sufficient for a single row of approximately 8.3m (27'). Dwarf variety. White seeded variety. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Great beginner variety. Heritage Seed Variety, 1925 packet details - A wonderful dwarf type of broad bean, attaining a height of nine to twelve inches only when grown in the open ground. The plants are of more or less spreading habit and are so freely branched that a very large number of pods is produced, each containing four or five beans of superior table quality.

From Suttons Price: £2.99

RHS Award of Garden Merit

Broad Bean Seeds - The Sutton

The earliest cropping, bushy dwarf broad bean, ideal for autumn or spring sowing in the smaller garden or exposed areas where taller varieties may be blown over. We recommend that the tips of plants are pinched out when the first pods have set. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Dwarf variety.Rob says: A short broad bean, which can be grown amongst flowers or borders. It doesnt need vast space like some others. The pods give 5-6 beans which are really tasty and freeze well. Or alternatively make them into a broad bean hummus, its gorgeous!

From Dobies Price: £2.49

RHS Award of Garden Merit

Broad Bean Seeds - The Sutton

The earliest cropping, bushy dwarf broad bean, ideal for autumn or spring sowing in the smaller garden or exposed areas where taller varieties may be blown over. We recommend that the tips of plants are pinched out when the first pods have set. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Dwarf variety.Rob says: A short broad bean, which can be grown amongst flowers or borders. It doesnt need vast space like some others. The pods give 5-6 beans which are really tasty and freeze well. Or alternatively make them into a broad bean hummus, its gorgeous!

From Dobies Price: £3.49

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