The latest addition for your kitchen garden – ever popular runner beans! ‘Streamline’ is a heavy cropping variety that will produce plenty of delicious runner beans for your dinner plate in no time at all.
Long, straight pods grow up to an impressive 45cm long on the plants, which can stretch up six foot tall – so be sure to support the growth with canes.
What’s more, flowers will start to emerge in a fiery shade of scarlet roughly a month or so after the runner beans have been planted, and just before the vegetables appear. These flowers are particularly attractive to bees and other beneficial insects. For best results, grow your beans alongside sweet peas to attract even more insects to pollinate, therefore leading to an even bigger crop!
Versatile and nutritious, young beans taste delicious when plucked straight from the plant and eaten raw as a mouth-watering treat, while the heavy crops can even be stored in the freezer for longer.
Supplied as a pack of six seeds, ready to be planted indoors.
How to grow runner beans
Harvest: July to October. Pick beans regularly to encourage further cropping.
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