John's Beans Climbing French Bean
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About John's Beans 🔗
Vegetable Type: | Climbing French Bean |
Date Added to the Heritage Seed Library: | 2001 |
Gardening writer Andi Clevely was sent these beans by a reader in response to an article he had written for The Garden in May 2001. The reader had been given the seeds by his late father, who received them in the 1960s from a Sicilian gardener, Giovanni Dolce, who worked for him at the time.
Both the reader and his father liked these beans so much they grew and saved them, naming them John after Giovanni, before sharing them with Andi some 40 years later.
John's Beans produces white flowers followed by prolific clusters of stringless pods. The pods are delicious when young, and the dried beans have a lovely nutty flavour. They have even been described as having a delicate velvet feel!
Champion John's Beans Climbing French Bean
Why we save John's Beans Climbing French Bean 🔗
Giovanni rated this variety so highly that he brought it with him to the UK from his homeland in Italy. They were then grown and saved for another 40 years. That amount of dedication to one variety across countries and generations really does show it's importance.
