Vegetable Seeds

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.