Description
Organic Climbing French Bean. Cobra. Phaseolus vulgaris.
Cobra produces many fine, long green pods. Beans are slow to develop and pods are stringless so you can eat them too. Cobra is suitable for both indoor and outdoor production.
How to grow:
Indoor production: Sow April to June in modules. Transplant or direct sow in May to July. Harvest starting in June right through to October. Pick out beans that are ready and in this way you’ll keep getting more. Select pods without beans developing.
Outdoor production: Sow direct in May to July for harvest July to October.
Will need stakes to grow up, put them in before sowing the seeds. Sow three bean seeds at the bottom of each stake – strong support for them to climb up, 3 beans 3 – 4 cms deep (to keep off mice and birds) into the soil.
Allow to grow on and save your seed for next year.
Problem solving:
Keep slugs off when young apart from that they’re mostly hassle free.
Favourite ways to eat them:
Eat the nutritious crunchy pods whole when young, they are a deliciious and highly nutritious addition to stir fries, stews and anything else you like beans in. The combination of beans and rice is well known worldwide, the combination makes up a complete or whole protein – defined as a food source of protein that contains an adequate proportion of each of the nine essential amino acids necessary in the human diet. Perfect if you’re vegan.
Cultural history:
An ancient crop, one of the oldest we cultivated. Originating from the south and central Americas, it has been grown in Europe since the 16th century.
Gardeners pack 35 seeds. Growers pack 200 seeds.
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