Beans A to Z, all our special offers

Beans are vegetables from the Legume family Leguminosae (syn. Fabaceae) - easy to sow, easy to grow, and not very susceptible to diseases. They often promise good harvests. Among all the types and varieties - from the immature String bean to the stringless mangetout or Snap beans, to Dry or Shelling beans and Spanish beans - there will be one that takes your fancy. Butter beans, green beans, or purple beans, climbing or dwarf, they all have unique flavours and characteristics to consider both in the garden and in the kitchen - especially since some varieties allow you to consume their pods first and then their seeds, depending on the time of harvest.