Thompson and Morgan Bean Runner Duo Mixed Multi Sown Garden Ready Plant 15 Pack

This easy-to-grow collection is the perfect duo of runner bean varieties, supplied as established plants that are ready to plant into the garden on their arrival. Designed to give you unbeatable garden performance, this mix of runner beans 'Scarlet Empire' and 'White Swan' will give you beautiful red and white blooms, followed by bumper harvests of delicious beans! Easy to pick on upright stems, plants produce heavy crops of excellent quality pods from mid-summer and well into October. When these two splendid varieties are paired together, they make an attractive display on your vegetable plot. This collection comprises: Runner Bean 'Scarlet Empire' and Runner Bean 'White Swan': Runner Bean 'White Swan' is a white-flowered, white-seeded variety. This vigorous variety produces excellent quality pods about 28cm long. Runner Bean 'Scarlet Empire' has been bred from 'Scarlet Emperor', a kitchen garden favourite for over 100 years. This variety produces longer, smoother, slender pods which are stringless, but remain as early, tasty and productive as its forebear. Grow runner beans outdoors in rich, fertile, well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade with protection from strong winds. Avoid freshly manured soil, which will promote lush foliage instead of beans. Runner beans require support from garden canes, strings or netting, which should be put in place at the time of planting. Images shown are for guidance only of the expected results from plants upon maturity. Different growing conditions might vary the results. Image may be included for illustration of supply, but can vary due to seasonality changes (e.g. deciduous plants lose leaves in colder months).