Peas and beans are generous, easy-going plants that enrich your soil while filling your kitchen with fresh pods. Our guides help you get the best from climbing, dwarf and broad varieties alike.

Broad Beans in a bowl

Broad Beans

Home-grown Broad Beans are delicious and wonderfully tender, and when sown in autumn become one of the first crops of the year. They're easy to grow from seed, yielding green pods of green, red or white beans that can be used in salads, stews, soups or dips. They don't take up too much space and can be grown in the ground, in raised beds and in large pots. 

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French Beans

French Beans give you two crops for the price of one: enjoy the pods when they're young and tender, or leave them to dry on the plant for use as haricot beans. Easy to grow and heavy cropping. A tender crop, wait until at least April to begin sowing these. Choose either dwarf or climing varieites to suit your growing space.

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Peas

Growing your own Peas is a joy. The sweetness of fresh peas is unmatched. Garden peas taste better than those from the supermarket. Each bite of sweet peas is a burst of natural sweetness. This makes them a highlight in any meal - if you actually manage to get them from the garden to the kitchen that is!

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runner bean

Runner Beans

Runner beans are delicious, nutritious and easy to grow. When picked young, they have great flavour, texture and succulence – so different to the stringy beans you find in the shops. They’re also pretty enough to grow as an annual climber in the flower border.

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