French Bean (Climbing) Cobra – Vigorous Garden Seed Variety

• Easy-to-grow, high-yielding variety suitable for home gardens, producing healthy, flavorful crops with minimal care.

Unwins Climbing French Bean Cobra is a high yielding stingless bean that looks great growing in your veg patch. Grow this climbing French bean with your runner beans to create a variety of textures and flavours. It’s easy to grow and produces masses of beautiful violet flowers, followed by delicious, tender, stingless beans. It can also be grown up wigwams for fantastic flower border displays. You’ll get masses of beans for weeks on end. Heavy cropping Stringless sweetly flavoured beans Quick to Grow Sow Indoors Sow individually in clean pots or modules of compost, 5 cm deep. Water well. Keep on a warm windowsill or in a propagator, maintaining a minimum temperature of 12°C. Growing On / Planting Out Slowly acclimatise to outdoor conditions before planting out in May to June when the risk of frost has passed, 15 to 20 cm apart in full sun, in soil with added organic matter. Climbing beans require support with a double row of canes, 1.8 m tall with 45 cm between rows. Keep soil moist at all times. Sowing Outdoors Sow direct into the required harvest location, 5 cm deep, 15 to 20 cm apart. Support with canes, as with planting out indoor sown beans. If planting in containers, choose one at least 75 cm in diameter, such as a half barrel. Advice Put supporting canes in place before planting out or direct sowing. Pick regularly once the beans are about 10 cm long and snap easily. Climbing beans harvest over a longer period than dwarf beans.