Grow this great bean for a really versatile, dual-purpose plant. It produces straight and elegant, green, flat pods that mature and fatten to a shade of pale yellow. Each pod holds 7 or 8 soft skinned beans that you can cook fresh or dry for winter use, the soft skin aids digestion and cooking. Disease resistant.

• Sow spring or autumn
• Chestnut beans
• Sow from: Apr-Jun