A sensational taste when fresh from the garden or allotment. Sow in autumn and your first harvest will be ready around May. Broad beans are one of the oldest cultivated vegetables. Young broad beans are incredibly sweet and tender making them ideal as a summer snack or treat while working on the plot.
Broad beans can be enjoyed hot or cold. We prefer to use our broad beans in a nice hot curry! Very easy to grow and handle anyone can grow we advise avoiding sowing directly because mice and other pests in the winter will love broad bean seeds as much as you do eating them!
50 Seeds per packet
Red Broad Beans
The Karmazyn broad bean is an unusual, pink-seeded gourmet bean. Popular in Eastern Europe for its superior flavor, compact size and high yields, these gourmet beans are now becoming quite well-regarded in Britain as well. If you’re looking for something different and unusual, these are the ...
50 Seeds per packet
Winter & Spring sowings
A new twist on an age-old staple, Robin Hood broad beans are a wonderfully compact dwarf fava plant ideal for container plantings and patio gardens. Used for both ornamental and food cultivatio.
From 50 Seeds per packet
Does very well in pots
Broad beans are a must in the vegetable garden, and if you’re short on space, the Sutton Dwarf is a great choice. It grows only to 45cm, needs no staking, and yields a copious amount of long pods, each containing 4-7 delicious white beans.
From 50 Seeds per packet
The best over winter bean
An early-maturing longpod with tasty white seeds. Provides some of the earliest crops in the in the U.K. if sown in autumn or winter sowing.
From 50 Seeds per packet
Very quick growing. Sow in the spring
One of the fastest-growing broad beans around, this super-early spring-sown bean has amazing taste and is ready around the same time as fall-sown varieties.
50 Seeds per packet
Striking red beans
Red Epicure Broad Bean is a unique and attractive variety, prized for its stunning crimson flowers and flavorful beans. This rare cultivar adds both ornamental value and culinary delight to UK gardens.
A quick-growing broad bean variety producing large pods with 7–8 white beans each. Renowned for its excellent flavour and suitability for freezing, this hardy annual reaches up to 1.2 metres in height.
Broad beans can be sown in from Autumn to Spring with a range of varieties best suited for each time of year. Need a quick-growing bean? Go with Witkiem Manita. Small space or only have pots? Sutton Dwarf is the seed you need. Autumn sowing Robin Hood, Aquaudlce Claudia, Karmazyn!
Sowing broad beans
We always advise starting off your beans in pots or trays and transplanting them to the ground later to ensure rodent-free germination! A root trainer makes the perfect starting pot, providing a strong and stable root system ensures a healthy start and even better once transplanted.
Our full broad bean grow guide is completed with sow, harvest and maintenance tips.
