This is a lovely and uncommon French Bean was originally sourced from Realseed in the UK before I moved to Ireland.
It has the unique property of never ever becoming stringy even when bulging with beans (honestly!). In fact, it is best eaten when fat and swollen with beans to get a lovely buttery flavour and its taste far exceeds any supermarket offering. It is also possible to save the seed as a drying bean, but I love to eat them in the pods so they never get that far!
It is a later producing bean and will be productive long after the other varieties have finished, right up until the first frosts. Probably because of this it is a little more cold resistant than some other varieties, but I have only grown it in a green house.
The beans which are produced in profusion, are flattened and quite short compared to other varieties. Along with Princess (which also never goes stringy!), it is my favourite French Bean.
This lovely French bean deserves to be more widely grown.
