bean (climbing French) 'Sunshine'
climbing french bean or Phaseolus vulgaris 'Sunshine'
An attractive, stringless climbing French bean with good disease resistance ensuring reliable, high quality crops. The long and slender pods...
approx 50 seeds
£3.49
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Plant description
An attractive, stringless climbing French bean with good disease resistance ensuring reliable, high quality crops. The long and slender pods (up to 10cm or 7in in length), have a sweet, mild flavour and are a golden shade of yellow in contrast to the bright green foliage. High yielding, ‘Sunshine’ will produce tasty beans from summer through autumn with regular picking.
Eventual height & spread
Flowering period
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Plant features
Position
Full sun / light shade
Rate of growth
Fast-growing
Soil
Moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soil
Hardiness
Frost tender
How to care for bean (climbing French) Sunshine:
Protect young plants from slugs and support with hazel wigwams or trellis. Pick French beans very regularly to keep the harvest coming: if beans are left on the plant to mature it will stop producing new ones.
Sowing instructions:
Sow three seeds to a 15cm pot in mid-April and keep well watered and warm until germination. Keep seedlings in a frost-free greenhouse or on a windowsill, potting them on as they grow, and once all threat of frost has passed harden off gradually before planting out.
Warning
Humans/Pets: Raw pods/beans harmful if eaten
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