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Description

What is more satisfying than growing your own tasty fruit and vegetables ta home? 'Blue Lake' is a great variety of French beans and is generally grown as a green bean for cooking. Inside the rich each green pod, there are white seeds or beans, and these can be harvested from pods that are left to mature for longer on the plant. These beans can be dried and stored to be used as haricot beans in soups and stews. These seeds will thrive in well-drained, humus-rich, and moisture-retentive soil in a sunny spot in your garden and will be ready to harvest from July to October. Delivered as a pack of approx. 100 seeds. Sow indoors from April-May.

Top Tips

Soak seeds for half an hour before sowing to encourage quick germination.
An early and late sowing will extend the harvest season.
In hot weather, mist the flowers with tepid water in the evening to help pods form.
Whole green beans are ideal for freezing. The white seeds inside the pods can be dried and stored for cooking as haricot beans.

Care Information

How to grow Climbing Bean

Sow indoors, April to May, for surest results, 2.5cm (1in) deep into individual pots of compost. Water well and place in a warm position. A temperature of 15-20�C (60-68�F) is ideal. Keep moist. Seedlings usually appear in 7-14 days. Gradually accustom plants to outside conditions (avoid frosts), before planting out 25cm (10in) apart, when frosts are over. Allow 45cm (18in) between rows. Provide poles, netting or trellis for plants to climb.
Or sow outdoors, May to July, where they are to crop, 5cm (2in) deep, directly into finely prepared soil that has already been watered. Delay sowing if soil is cold or waterlogged. Sow 2 seeds together, 30cm (12in) between each position. Allow 45cm (18in) between rows. Thin to leave stronger plant. Water well until plants are established. Provide poles, netting or trellis for plants to climb. Pinch out tops of plants once they reach 180cm (72ins).
Pick beans regularly to encourage further cropping.

Delivery Information

Our experienced team at the nursery will always carefully package and send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive once you receive and plant them. Although most plants are extremely tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme of weather conditions, we always avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme frosts or heat is forecast. We also avoid dispatching orders over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. If you have ordered a 'pre-order' item, these will be sent out as soon as possible after the quoted dispatch date and we generally ship your entire order with any pre-ordered items. Once your order has been dispatched, we will send you an email with details on how you can track it.

We send most of our orders via a fully tracked courier service with Yodel. We will send you a tracking link as soon as your order has been dispatched. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, we will not require a signature on delivery, and we ask out couriers to leave your item in a safe place ad your delivery address.

*Please note, once your item has been delivered, we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your delivery address. If you have delivery instruction and require our courier to leave your item in a specific place, please let us know - there is an option to leave a message for the courier at the checkout.

For smaller and single-item orders, we may send these via the post with Royal Mail - Tracking will not be available for orders sent via this method.

**Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

For all orders, a small delivery fee of £4.99 will be charged or spend over £49.99 for FREE Delivery!

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