French Climbing Bean A Cosse Violette

Description

French Climbing Bean A Cosse Violette

French Climbing Bean A Cosse Violette. A fantastic climbing variety with showy lavender flowers and purple veined leaves. A prolific performer it produces a heavy crop of beautiful deep purple, tender and string less pods. Best steamed as the pods leach their colour when boiled.

Cultivation Advice

• Time to harvest: 12-14 weeks
• Germination time: 7-14 days
• Planting Depth: 2 inch
• Spacing, Row: 18 inches
• Spacing, Seeds: 6-9 inches
• Light: Sunny Location
• Beans are hungry crops that require ample organic matter dug in prior to sowing.
• Sow in pots undercover in April for an earlier harvest or directly outside when all danger of frost has passed.
• Protect young plants from pests.
• Loosely tie in young plants to supports.
• Feed once in flower with a high-potash fertiliser to prolong cropping.