Bean Blue Lake

Bean Blue Lake is a classic choice for early beans and with a beautiful flavour. Dating from 1885, it is a wonderfully prolific climbing bean with a long, steady cropping pattern of tender and tasty green beans. It does well even in adverse weather, they defy summer drought and remain sugar sweet and tender when cooked.

Blue Lake produces dark green pods that remain stringless at all stages of growth. They are tender and rich, and filled with white seeds that are of incomparable flavour.

Growing to around 2 m, they can be grown against a trellis, up netting or up canes set 1 m apart. Because they use vertical space, they free up the horizontal rows in the vegetable garden for other varieties.

Eaten raw they make a tasty and crunchy addition to summer salads, but their versatility doesn’t end there as they are perfect for freezing – and any left at the end of the season can be dried and the pure white beans used as haricot beans for soups or chillies.

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