• Eventual height: 1.8m
  • Eventual spread: 0.45m

bean (climbing French) 'Sunshine'

climbing french bean or Phaseolus vulgaris 'Sunshine'

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approx 50 seeds £3.49
SD30000904
£3.49
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  • Seed Packets (only) £2.95
  • Named Day £10.95
  • Position: Full sun
  • Soil: Moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soil
  • Rate of growth: Fast
  • Hardiness: Half-hardy annual


An attractive, stringless climbing French bean with good disease resistance ensuring reliable, high quality crops. The long and slender pods (up to 10cm or 7in in length), have a sweet, mild flavour and are a golden shade of yellow in contrast to the bright green foliage. High yielding, ‘Sunshine’ will produce tasty beans from summer through autumn with regular picking.


Garden care:
Protect young plants from slugs and support with hazel wigwams or trellis. Pick French beans very regularly to keep the harvest coming: if beans are left on the plant to mature it will stop producing new ones.


  • Sowing instructions:
    Sow three seeds to a 15cm pot in mid-April and keep well watered and warm until germination. Keep seedlings in a frost-free greenhouse or on a windowsill, potting them on as they grow, and once all threat of frost has passed harden off gradually before planting out.


  • Sow: April to July


  • Harvest: July to October
    • Humans/Pets: Raw pods/beans harmful if eaten
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