Beans
If you're a passionate gardener, these legumes are your secret ingredient for healthy and delicious meals. Each of these varieties has a rich history and a flavour profile like no other.
Beans are frost-sensitive and prefer full sun. Well-improved soil will provide superior crops.
Best grown by direct seeding 10-15 days after your last frost date. Plant seeds directly where they are to grow 2.5-3cm deep. Individual plant spacing is 30-40cm and 40cm between rows. Germination takes 7-10 days. Soil temps should be above 13ºC, otherwise, seed may rot in the ground. Bush beans will be the first to produce and you can start harvesting early varieties from about 50-55 days. Pole beans take a while longer and will produce from around 65+ days.
Broad Beans: A.k.a. fava beans. A bush variety needing support. Enjoys cooler weather and can tolerate mild frost. Best planted in autumn or early spring.
Bush Beans: A.k.a. dwarf beans. Very quick and rewarding crop. Produces early, with flushes of sweet, tender beans. Plant after the last frost.
Pole Beans: These are climbing beans that require support in order to climb. The more often their pods are picked, the more they produce.
Runner Beans: A productive bean that requires support to climb. Best picked young. These beans require stringing yet more than make up for the effort with exceptional flavour.
Lima Beans: A.k.a. butter beans. Very productive, rambling, bushy plants. Requires a long, warm season to produce. Mainly used as shelly or dry beans.
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Rattlesnake Beans
Phaseolus vulgarisHeirloom.This bean have vigorous vines which easily grow over 3m tall. Very produc..
R31.48
Redland Pioneer Bush Bean
Phaseolus vulgaris Redland is an Australian bred bean seed that is an old-style, tasty, flat gree..
R33.90
Rio Zape Beans
Phaseolus vulgaris Wow. What a great dry bean. Rio Zape produces early, produces well and gives a..
R34.13
Robin Hood Broad Beans
Vica faba A prolific English variety broad bean which is a great source of protein, Vitamins A &a..
R41.22
Roc d' Or Bush Bean
Phaseolus vulgaris A Yellow bush bean variety that produces straight, deep yellow pods. Delicious..
R34.13
Roquefort Beans
Phaseolus vulgaris A great little producer of sweet and crisp, yellow snap beans. Popular for the..
R34.13
Royal Striped Cowpea
Vigna unguiculataAvailable for purchase from 1 July 2025 Royal Striped Cowpea is a Sout..
R37.15
Sex Without Strings
Phaseolus vulgaris An awesome little bush bean that produces lovely yellow wax beans. This is a o..
R33.49
Sieva Lima Beans
Phaseolus lunatusThis heirloom variety gained it's reputation as being Thomas Jefferson's personal f..
R35.11
Snow on the Mountains
Phaseolus lunatusAvailable for purchase from 1 July 2025 Snow on the Mountain is a pole..
R33.12
Solwezi Dry
Phaseolus vulgaris An outstanding African Heirloom pole bean variety, the preferred dry bean in Z..
R33.90
Soup Pinto
Phaseolus vulgarisLIMITED STOCK!Pinto Beans are the quintessential Mexican cooking bean. With their..
R33.90
Sparg Pole Bean
Phaseolus vulgaris A fantastic pole bean that was given to Livingseeds by the Sparg family. Passed d..
R33.90
Strike Bush Bean
Phaseolus vulgaris An awesome bush bean. Great strong producer of early beans, produces well with..
R32.20
Stringless Pioneer
Phaseolus vulgarisA high yielding, early bush bean variety that produces exceptionally well. T..
R33.90
Succotash
Phaseolus vulgaris This historical bean is thought to have been the original bean used to make su..
R33.90
Swahili Grey Kijirui
Phaseolus vulgaris A Kenyan dry bean variety, collected at a market in the coastal town of Momba..
R33.90
Sword Bean
Canavalia gladiataThe sword bean is a robust tropical climbing legume recognised for its strikingly ..
R52.33
Tender Delight
Phaseolus vulgaris A heavy cropper of lovely stringless green beans borne on sturdy bushes that g..
R34.13
Tendergreen Bush Beans
Phaseolus vulgaris Another lovely bush bean, Tendergreen is a productive, stringless, round podde..
R33.49