Vegetable Seeds

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.