Broad/Fava Beans

Vicia faba 'Aquadulce Claudia'

Bean (Broad/Fava) 'Aquadulce Claudia'

Longer podded and slightly earlier to mature than ordinary Aquadulce, Aquadulce Claudia is the recommended variety for autumn sowings throughout the UK for the earliest crops of tasty young beans the following year.

For earliest crops,...

Vicia faba 'Bunyards Exhibition'

Bean (Broad/Fava) 'Bunyards Exhibition'

First introduced over 100 years ago. Heavy cropping white seeded type with long pods of 8 or 9 beans. Very reliable, good flavour and a good freezer.

Vicia faba 'Dreadnought'

Bean (Broad/Fava) 'Dreadnought'

Quick growing variety giving good size pods of white seeded beans. Excellent flavour and the beans freeze well.

Vicia faba 'Masterpiece Green Longpod'

Bean (Broad/Fava) 'Masterpiece Green Longpod'

Excellent length of pod and table quality. A fine green seeded broad bean and also excellent for deep freezing. Reliable and popular with six or seven large juicy beans per pod.

Maincrop varieties can be sown February to March. It is...

Vicia faba 'Medes'

Bean (Broad/Fava) 'Medes'

An excellent cropper with medium sized pods, each containing 5-6 tender white beans with impeccable flavour. Plants are medium height and neatly compact. Suitable for spring sowing. Highly recommended for freezing. Height 36in...

Vicia faba 'Statissa'

Bean (Broad/Fava) 'Statissa'

Compact, upright plant habit, producing an early setting of short, slender pods. Pick regularly for delicious 'mangetout pods' to eat raw or steamed, or allow pods to fill out with tasty small beans. Ideal in containers. Height 60-70cm (24-28in).

Vicia faba 'Super Aquadulce Smeralda'

Bean (Broad/Fava) 'Super Aquadulce Smeralda'

This highly productive variety will produce 35-38 long pods. A prolific yielder. Delicious when cooked sliced and used in soups or casseroles. Pick when plump. Matures in 50-60 days.

Vicia faba 'The Sutton (dwarf)'

Bean (Broad/Fava) 'The Sutton (dwarf)'

Unique in that it can be sown in succession March to July outdoors and November to February under cloches to porduce a very early crop. White beans. Recommended for small gardens. Sown as instructed, a packet of seed is suffficient for a row...

Vicia faba 'White Windsor'

Bean (Broad/Fava) 'White Windsor'

Sister variety to Green Windsor but introduced some 60 years later in 1895. 6-7 beans to a pod. Good flavour and freezes well.

Vicia faba 'Witkiem'

Bean (Broad/Fava) 'Witkiem'

A long pod variety that is very fast to mature. It is hardy so can be sown from autumn through to spring. It is heavy yielding, tender and perfect for the freezer.

Vicia faba 'Aquadulce'

Bean (Broad) 'Aquadulce'

130-150 days if spring sown, 240 days if overwintering. Originally from Spain, and well loved in England, this variety produces 7-8 large, flavourful beans per pod. The vigorous, 60cm (2 ft.) plants are really hardy to -11 deg. C (12 deg. F)....

Vicia faba 'Broad Windsor'

Bean (Broad/Fava) 'Broad Windsor'

240 days if over-wintering, 130-150 days if spring sown. Plants are 60cm-1m (2-3 ft.) tall. Light green pods contain 6 or 7 large pale green seeds which shell easily.

CULTURE: They grow well in ordinary garden soil. Plant in...

Vicia faba 'Common Egyptian'

Bean (Broad/Fava) 'Common Egyptian'

Small broad pods, similar to Windsor type.

Vicia faba 'Express'

Bean (Broad/Fava) 'Express'

This is the fastest maturing variety of any broad bean and from an early spring sowing will outyield all others. Up to 34 good pods per plant! It is outstanding for deep freeze as it does not discolour and probably for the same reason is...

Vicia faba 'Giant Exhibition Longpod'

Bean (Broad/Fava) 'Giant Exhibition Longpod'

Pods of good length and white beans of delicious flavour. Very successful on show benches.

Maincrop varieties can be sown February to March. It is advisable to pinch out tips of plants when first pods have set to deter blackfly. Most...

Vicia faba 'Green Windsor'

Bean (Broad/Fava) 'Green Windsor'

The windsor types have shorter pods and hence fewer beans in them but the flavour is considered better. Slower to mature than longpods.

Vicia faba 'Imperial White Windsor'

Bean (Broad/Fava) 'Imperial White Windsor'

Long podded with well-filled pods. Seeds are a good size and bright white.

Maincrop varieties can be sown February to March. It is advisable to pinch out tips of plants when first pods have set to deter blackfly. Most varieties will...

Vicia faba 'Jubilee Hysor'

Bean (Broad/Fava) 'Jubilee Hysor'

An excellent, flavoursome variety giving tremendous yields of broad, well-filled pods containing 6-8 succulent seeds. A major improvement on the traditional favourite White Windsor, but retaining its fine qualities and flavour. Extremely...

Vicia faba 'Optica'

Bean (Broad/Fava) 'Optica'

An easy to grow, high-yielding, white seeded vareity whose low growing habit makes it ideal for exposed locations. The beans are nutritous and equally delicious fresh or frozen.

Maincrop varieties can be sown February to March. It is...

Vicia faba 'Scorpio'

Bean (Broad/Fava) 'Scorpio'

A high yielding white flowered variety, producing clusters of four to five pods which are easy to pick and produce small, tender succulent white beans in abundance. Approx 1m (40in) tall. Harvest June to August.