When space is limited, turn to the French bean. It's easy to grow where space is a premium, and provides ideal finger food for younger children or anyone else who doesn’t like the string that comes with runner beans (us included) Plant as few as 6 plants for a healthy crop. Keep picking and you will be rewarded with more.
40 Seeds per packet
Climbing bean, use bean, pods or both.
Sometimes called ‘Fire-Tongue’ for its red mottling, the Borlotto Lingua di Fuoco French bean makes a great-tasting, colourful addition to any garden. Good for eating fresh or as a “pod bean” (and also as an ornamental!), these beans will add a bit of splash to both your garden and your ...
75 Seeds per packet
Drawf bean. Easy to grow, high yields.
The French bean is a must for anyone growing their own vegetables. Not only are they super easy to grow and packed with goodness (particularly protein and vitamins A and C), they also taste great, store well, and take up very little space.
75 Seeds per packet
Climbing bean, stringless.
A heavy, reliable cropper with gorgeous violet flowers and sweet, stringless beans.
75 Seeds per packet
Dwarf bean, high yields.
A high-yielding, beautifully golden dwarf French bean with great disease resistance. Great in the allotment and in container gardens alike.
75 Seeds per packet
Dwarf bean, very tasty.
One of the tastiest of the purple French beans, this variety is beautiful enough for a flower garden, yet delicious in the kitchen.
50 Seeds per packet
Climbing bean, heavy crops.
A classic heavy-yielding French bean perfect for both early-season and main cropping.
75 Seeds per packet
Dwarf bean, very tasty.
A dwarf compact french bean with good ground clearance. Yellow bean!
75 Seeds per packet
Drawf bean. Grow AFTER frost date
Large bountiful harvests with our Tendergreen Dwarf French Bean seeds, a top choice for amateur and seasoned gardeners alike!
75 Seeds per packet
Drawf bean. Smooth slender pods
An RHS award-winning variety celebrated for its high yields and superb taste.
We offer a range of dwarf and climbing French beans! Dwarf French beans require no support! It can be planted in multiple rows and close together (ignore the spacing if push comes to shove!) pots, gardens or the allotment makes no difference for the dwarf bean.
Climbing French beans requires some support to climb up just like runner beans or peas. Provide bean poles or jute netting and let them grow and thrive. These require more space than dwarf beans and although you can grow 2 or 3 in a pot they are best planted in the ground.
These beans are super productive and will continue to produce as long as you keep picking
Sowing French beans
Start in pots or modules and transplant to the final growing position once sprouted. Depending on what French bean seed you are sowing will depend if you need support or not.
