Climbing French Bean - Cobra Seeds

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  • RHS Award of Garden Merit
  • Varieties that, in our selector's opinion, have exceptional flavour
  • Suitable for freezing

£2.45 each

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Grow this French Bean variety as runner beans. Cobra can also be grown under glass for an early crop.

Produces huge deliciously tender and tasty crops of exceptional quality beans.

With lovely violet flowers too, this is a vegetable beautiful enough for any flower border - making it just perfect for smaller gardens!

Pods grow up to 8in long and are stringless.

  • Quantity Sufficient Seed For A 25ft / 7.5m Row
  • Catalogue Code 1030-3147

Growing Calendar for Climbing French Bean - Cobra Seeds

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On 12/08/2010 John Strickland wrote:
Rating:5

Cobra are a high yielding crop. Started in a roottrainer and plant them around a wigwam of poles. Easily 7 feet high plants with a continuous crop beginning in June and expect them to go into September. Very crisp and snappy, freeze well with a lovely flavour.

On 28/02/2010 Katie Burge wrote:
Rating:5

Cobra give an easy and prolific crop. I always start them in a plastic container and plant them into a trench with a bit of manure just as they are starting their second set of leaves. Last summer, they must have grown 12 feet - making beans all the way! We had a bumper crop from less than a packet of seeds! They are long and slim and crisp and snappy and freeze well.

On 11/01/2010 Catherine Flitter wrote:
Rating:4

These produce a massive crop which do need to be picked daily to stop them 'going over'. This can be a slight problem if they are not in your garden! Germination was not too great and I did have to make a second sowing, but very well worth growing and much easier than normal French beans. They also freeze extremely well and we were eating them for Christmas lunch!

Climbing French Bean - Cobra Seeds 1030-3147

Excellent flavour, tender and tasty beans

Sow Indoors: April-May, singly in clean pots or modules of compost 2in (5cm) deep. Water well. Keep warm.

Sow Outdoors: May-June direct into the required harvest position, 2in (5cm) deep, 8in (20cm) apart. Keep soil moist at all times.

Plant Out: Indoor raised crops May-June 8in (20cm) apart.

Harvest: June-August.

Climbing beans require trellis or a 'wig wam' of canes to climb through.

Pick young beans regularly for best flavour.

Standard Seeds E.C Rules and Regulations.

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