Kitchen Garden

DWARF BEANS ON TRIAL

The Royal Horticultural Society carries out regular trials on vegetable varieties to assess their suitability for garden use. The latest – on dwarf beans – included 46 varieties. Thirty-two were green podded (two of which were flat-podded types ‘The Prince’ and ‘Nugetka’), eight yellow (a single flat-podded ‘Meraviglia di Venezia’), four purple, and two bicolour (both ‘Red Swan’ and ‘Merveille

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