Bob's Best Dwarf French Bean
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About Bob's Best Dwarf French Bean 🔗
Vegetable Type: | Dwarf French Bean |
Date Added to the Heritage Seed Library: | 2010 |
Our donor has grown this variety since the 1980s after being given seeds by an allotment neighbour. It’s an intermediate variety producing two to three leaders that will climb to around 70cm.
Although, if planted closely (about 6cm apart) as our donor does, they shouldn't need any staking as the plants will support each other. Pick them very young if eating the purple pods, as they get stringy when mature, or pod the beans and enjoy them that way. Seed colour pale cream to buff.
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Why we save Bob's Best Dwarf French Bean 🔗
A great example of an heirloom unknown outside its local area, in this case Tunstall, near Sittingbourne, Kent. This variety had been grown on the local allotment since the 1980s after being given seeds by an allotment neighbour, and were regularly sold by the packet at the Tunstall Parish Church Christmas Bazaar.
