A purple climbing bean!

• Easy to grow and heavy cropping, French beans will crop reliably during hot weather, unlike runner beans
• French beans give you two crops for the price of one: enjoy the pods when they’re young and tender, or leave them to dry on the plant for use as haricot beans
• Cosse Violette have beautiful deep purple pods which turn dark green on cooking. They have a fine flavour and harvests over a long period in either glasshouse or out in the open
• Sow indoors from February for an early crop. Sow direct outdoors from April for a main crop. Harvest up to November!