Pea & Bean Seeds

We supply a variety of pea seeds and bean seeds, offering only those varieties that not only perform well in our UK climate, but offer the best tasting produce. That's why you may find some heritage varieties of runner beans, broad beans and more listed amongst the more common modern varieties, as taste was almost always one of the most discerning factors in vegetable and legume production because mass production stripped away those important flavours!

But peas and beans - in fact, nearly all legumes - are also highly favoured by green-fingered types for two reasons. Firstly, peas and beans are well suited to growing in the British climate, and a great number of utterly delicious varieties will thrive here, if given the best start from seed. Secondly, once your pea seeds and bean seeds have established their roots in the soil, their roots systems will work with certain bacteria in the soil and begin the process of 'fixing nitrogen'. Broadly speaking, the peas and beans that you grow in your vegetable plot will absorb nitrogen from the air and fix it into the soil, leaving it well-nourished and essentially offering a free and totally natural fertilisation service!

Growing garden peas, bush peas, broad beans, runner beans, dwarf beans and French beans - and all the other varieties in between - is generally quite easy!

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