Vegetable Seeds

Dark green beans with 12 to 14cm pods on compact erect bushes. A great summer bush bean ready to harvest in 55 to 65 days from transplant.

A tasty stringless bush bean. Harvesting in 60 days it likes the full sun and is best planted in spring or early summer, though in the lowveld it thrives year round. Likes good watering, and is a favourite in salads.

Seeds per pack - 10 Seeds

Country of Origin - USA

Certified Organic by - USDA

Despite the name, the pods are actually only about half a yard long; the subspecies name sesquipedalis (one-and-a-half-foot-long) is a rather exact approximation of the pods' length. This plant is of a different genus than the common bean. It is a vigorous climbing annual vine. A variety of the cowpea, it is grown primarily for its strikingly long (35-75 cm) immature pods and has uses very similar to that of a green bean. The pods, which begin to form just 60 days after sowing, hang in pairs. They are best if picked for vegetable use before they reach full maturity. The plant is subtropical/tropical and most widely grown in the warmer parts of Southeastern Asia, Thailand, and Southern China. Yardlong beans are quick-growing and daily checking/harvesting is often a necessity.

Producing Large Green Pods with Tender Broad Beans. Highly disease resistant plant in spring for best results. Harvests at 60 to 90 days with good sun exposure.

Madagascar Lima beans are a vigorous, perennial tropical bean with pods that each contain 2-4 large purple speckled seeds that can be peeled and eaten raw or steamed when young or cooked as a dried bean. It grows well in hot, humid conditions. 12-15 weeks to maturity.

Bright yellow and purple bean pods have great taste and are heavy croppers. To get the most of their bright colours use them raw as the beans fade to light green when cooked.

This semi-climbing variety produces lilac flowers followed by a plentiful crop of green pods. These can be a little stringy; however, the shiny black seeds are perfect as a drying bean.

Despite the name, the pods are actually only about half a yard long; the subspecies name sesquipedalis (one-and-a-half-foot-long) is a rather exact approximation of the pods' length. This plant is of a different genus than the common bean. It is a vigorous climbing annual vine. A variety of the cowpea, it is grown primarily for its strikingly long (35-75 cm) immature pods and has uses very similar to that of a green bean. The pods, which begin to form just 60 days after sowing, hang in pairs. They are best if picked for vegetable use before they reach full maturity. The plant is subtropical/tropical and most widely grown in the warmer parts of Southeastern Asia, Thailand, and Southern China. Yardlong beans are quick-growing and daily checking/harvesting is often a necessity. This is the red variety.

A tasty stringless bush bean. Harvesting in 60 days it likes the full sun and is best planted in spring or early summer, though in the lowveld it thrives year round. Likes good watering, and is a favourite in salads.

This Italian heirloom bean has a soft, creamy yellow skin A great pole bean variety which does require good support to get the best productivity. Use fresh or dried, they are an excellent source of protein, dietary fibre and complex carbohydrates.

A bush variety harvesting in 55 days. Delicious golden-yellow pods are stringless and are of good quality with extra-fine rich flavour.

An heirloom variety with an intriguing coloured black and white bean, which holds it’s colour when cooked! A mild sweet flavour.

Beans are the size of peas and are red-speckled with a deep purple-rust colour and grow well in hot weather. A bush bean variety.

An Heirloom originating from Portugal. Attractive beans with half pure white and the other half speckled beige and burgundy. Best used as dry beans and great added to soups and stews.

Large, flat, green pods with purple steaks, with cream and black streaked seeds. Good eaten small as a snap bean, but it's best as a fresh shelling bean or dry. Vigorous climbing vines.

Flat 15cm golden pods borne in clusters. A prolific climbing bean.

A productive pole bean with a delicious flavour. Great as green beans or dried.

White Emergo runner bean has decorative clear white blooms. The beans are similar to a cannellini beans and are cream coloured and plump, with a shape almost like a half moon. They are also known as sweet white runner beans. The smooth green beans can be eaten fresh or frozen, or left on the plants to mature and harvest the mature creamy white seeds. They have a pleasing texture and hold their shape well and are considered excellent for use in soups and salads. This is a vigorous variety with prolific yields of long, slender pods with good flavour. With a high crop to space ratio, it will produce through the summer heat and is better able to withstand adverse weather conditions. 80 days to harvest.

Kentucky Wonder is a brown-seeded bean noted for its exceptional flavour and its heavy crops of 9" green pods, borne in clusters. Pods are oval, thick, gently curved, meaty and tender, and they're stringless when young. It's been proven tops for productivity, flavour and wide adaptability; it's delicious fresh, frozen or dried for shell beans. Pole beans yield much longer than bush beans, right up to frost. Plant at the base of poles, trellis, or a fence.

A fleshy, tender climbing bean that produces good quantities of up to 18cm beans.

Producing Flat Green Pods, with a fine flavour, this ranks as our favourite runner bean. Highly disease resistant plant in spring for best results. Harvests at 60 to 90 days with good sun exposure.

Producing Large Green Pods with Tender Broad Beans. Highly disease resistant, plant in spring for best results. Harvests at 60 to 90 days with good sun exposure.

Seeds per pack - 5 Seeds

Country of Origin - Proudly produced in South Africa by Sandveld Organics

Certified Organic by - KIWA BCS ÖKO-GARANTIE GmbH

About the producer - Seeds for Africa and Sandveld Organics have entered into an exclusive strategic partnership to offer a large range of South African grown certified organic seeds. Sandveld Organics are an organic farm in Lamberts Bay on the Cape West Coast. Founded in 1998 Sandveld Organics has achieved and maintained organic certification with KIWA BCS ÖKO-GARANTIE GmbH since 1998. Sandveld Organics are the ONLY South African company growing certified organic seed.

The seeds are mottled with cranberry flecks. Used dry or green shelled, there are five to six seeds per pod. The plants are hardy and they are easy to shell. The flavour is sweeter and more delicate than pinto beans.