Maxi Dwarf French Bean
£2.50
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Maxi is a modern early cropping cultivar, producing long stringless beans of good flavour. Easy cropping as the beans are held above the plants. Robust and reliable, popular with organic growers. It can benefit from support during cropping period due to the weight of the beans.
Tolerant to BMV 1 (Bean Mosaic Virus) and poor weather. Sow successionally to prolong your harvesting season – dwarf French beans are really easy to grow, delicious and nutritious.
In our 2023 mini trial of dwarf French beans Maxi began cropping about 5 days earlier than Cupidon and Nassau.
Maxi was bred by growers affiliated with Kultursaat, the European plant breeding non-profit charity dedicated to breeding new varieties of open-pollinated vegetable crops specifically for organic and biodynamic farming systems.
Approx. 50 seeds.
Botanical name: Phaseolus vulgaris
- Grown by: Simon Powell
Sow undercover in late spring Sow in deep modules or small pots. Harden off and plant out after last frost. . Sow 4 cm deep with spacing 15cm between plants and 40 cm between rows. French beans like warmth, sun and rich soil. Although they are dwarf beans they still need support, bamboo or hazel tripods work well. Keep plants well watered. Keep picking to promote more flowers and beans. Sow in succession to provide harvest for longer periods. Late spring to late summer.
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