Borlotti - 77NS

Borlotti - 77NS

Details   A productive vigorous climber, Long vines that will grow to 6m tall if provided support, ideal as a drying bean. Borlotti are descendants from the original Cranberry beans that originated in Colombia
Botanical name   Phaseolus vulgaris
Date Of Seed Harvest   Feb 2025
Grower name   Nev and Sue Sinclair
Storage Info   seed restocked each year
Contains at least   30
Price per packet   $4.50
Watch Only 9 in stock   Order

broad bean - Lucifer - 373CMK

Details   These dark red/brown broad beans are a great producer and colour, would like some support when growing, they take 115 days till harvest. Sow in spring, summer and autumn, sow direct.
Botanical name   Vicia Faba
Grower name   Carla McKnight
Contains at least   30
Price per packet   $4.50
Watch View More Only 3 in stock   Add to Order
broad bean- Red seeded - 150RG

broad bean- Red seeded - 150RG

Details   Rick received this bean from the Southern Seed Exchange many years ago and has become his favorite Broad bean for his own personal supply.
Botanical name   Vicia Faba
Grower name   Rick Ginders
Storage Info   Seed stock refreshed yearly
Contains at least   30
Price per packet   $4.50
Watch   Order
broadbean - El Beano -138NS

broadbean - El Beano -138NS

Details   This broad bean has pure white flowers. The pods enclose beans that are sweet, and which remain green once cooked and are nice eaten raw. Nev selected this cultivar from a random mutation over 35 years ago that he noticed had produced pure white flowers and so over the following years carried on selecting for that trait. he much preferred the flavour and colour.  In colder parts of the South Island and Inland North Island you don't want to sow broad beans between March and and early May. Best sown in spring to early summer.

Open Source Seed Initiative Pledge: You have the freedom to use these OSSI-Pledged seeds in any way you choose. In return, you pledge not to restrict others’ use of these seeds or their derivatives by patents or other means, and to include this Pledge with any transfer of these seeds or their derivatives.
Botanical name   Vicia Faba
Date Of Seed Harvest   Nov 2022
Grower name   Nev&Sue Sinclair
Storage Info   Seed stock refreshed yearly
Contains at least   30
Price per packet   $4.50
Watch   Order
broadbean - Medbury grex - 38RW

broadbean - Medbury grex - 38RW

Details   This tall line of broad bean can withstand heavy winter frosts as low as -10deg here in the Amuri basin when plants are young, but equally handles the heat as well, will grow mostly unsupported up to 1.5m tall. In colder parts of the South Island and Inland North Island you dont want to sow broad beans between March and early May. If plants are over 10cm tall, heavy frosts will damage or kill them. Plants under this size handle frosts well.
Botanical name   Vicia faba
Date Of Seed Harvest   seed regrown yearly
Grower name   Richard Paul Watson
Contains at least   approx 30
Price per packet   $4.50
Watch Only 4 in stock   Order
Butterbean - 22RW

Butterbean - 22RW

Details   Many of the older gardeners will remember the dwarf butterbean which was very popular in the 60's and 70's. This strain has been grown for over 40 years by a long time home gardener before being given to Richard so as to preserve this heirloom, This bean produces a pale yellow/cream pod in colour that grows to about 15cm in length. The complete pod is eaten although the ends can be trimmed if desired and is wonderful added to salads when small.
Botanical name   Phaseolus vulgaris
Grower name   Richard Paul Watson
Storage Info   Seed frozen stored
Contains at least   30
Price per packet   $4.50
Watch   Order
Cherokee Trail of Tears - 42RW

Cherokee Trail of Tears - 42RW

Details   Between 1838 and 1839 the Cherokee people of the United States were forced to march across the Smoky Mountains to Oklahoma. This winter death march is known as the Trail of Tears as over 4,000 people died making the trip. In 1977 a member of Seed Savers Exchange named Dr. John Wyche from Hugo, Oklahoma, USA donated seeds to there collection. It is thought that his Cherokee ancestors carried this heirloom bean with them on the Trail of Tears. Beans were domesticated in the Americas thousands of years ago and serve as a protein in the diet of humans
Botanical name   Phaseolus vulgaris
Grower name   Richard Paul Watson
Contains at least   30
Price per packet   $4.50
Watch   Order
Crystal - 109RW

Crystal - 109RW

Details   This climbing bean was given to Richard 2017 under the name 'Crystal', grows to 2 -3 metres tall and produces a black seed.
Botanical name   Phaseolus vulgaris
Grower name   Richard Paul Watson
Storage Info   Seed frozen stored
Contains at least   40
Price per packet   $4.50
Watch Only 4 in stock   Order

Czar White - dwarf runner 39RW

Details   White flowered, white seeded bush form of the Runner bean, grows to about 40cm tall. Like all dwarf beans they are frost tender. During long periods of wet weather it can be an idea to throw a cover over to shed the rain as beans close to the ground can rot.
Botanical name   Phaseolus coccineus
Date Of Seed Harvest   Feb 2025
Grower name   Richard Paul Watson
Contains at least   30 seeds
Price per packet   $4.50
Watch Only 10 in stock   Order
Daniel's Defiance - 53RW

Daniel's Defiance - 53RW

Details   Daniels Defiance is a tall growing bean with seeds a slightly different colour to the standard Runner Bean.
Botanical name   Phaseolus coccineus
Date Of Seed Harvest   2018
Grower name   Richard Paul Watson
Storage Info   Seed frozen stored
Contains at least   30
Price per packet   $4.50
Watch Only 5 in stock   Order
Next page