{"title":"French Bean Plants","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrench bean plants are a popular choice for fresh, crunchy beans straight from the garden. Easy to grow and productive, they thrive in sunny UK conditions and provide a delicious addition to summer meals.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"french-bean-summer-medley-mix-plants-may-despacth-10805896","title":"French Bean 'Summer Medley Mix'","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree delicious and decorative French bean varieties\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSupplied as 12 multisown garden-ready plugs per variety (min. 40 plants each)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeavy cropping and long harvesting season\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdeal for beds, raised planters and productive gardens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe French Bean 'Summer Medley Mix' offers a beautifully colourful and productive trio of high-performing beans, each bringing its own unique flavour, texture and visual appeal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBlue Lake\u003c\/strong\u003e produces an abundant crop of thin, stringless green beans with a fine, sweet flavour, ready to pick from early summer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMonte Gusto\u003c\/strong\u003e adds an ornamental touch with its long, slender yellow pods that can reach up to 25cm, forming generous clusters all over the plant and offering natural resistance to common mosaic virus for trouble-free growing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCosse Violette\u003c\/strong\u003e produces striking deep purple stringless pods that contrast beautifully with dark green foliage and lavender flowers, cropping over an extended period\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupplied as 12 multi-sown garden-ready plugs per variety (minimum 40 plants each), this mix is perfect for gardeners looking for colour, flavour and productivity in equal measure. These beans thrive in sunny beds, raised planters and allotments, delivering reliable, long-lasting harvests throughout the summer. 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It produces huge deliciously tender and tasty crops of exceptional quality beans and has been awarded the RHS Recommended: Award of Garden Merit for good performance on the vegetable plot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith delightful violet flowers too, this is a vegetable plant beautiful enough for any flower border. Tall yet compact in habit Cobra is suitable for growing in beds with a little support or in raised beds, available from Marshalls, for gardeners that prefer not to crouch down to ground level to pick vegetables.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHarvest by the handfuls fresh green beans. Great in the kitchen steamed or lightly boiled to accompany Sunday dinners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the garden French bean Cobra is an effective wind-break plant. 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