We’ve mentioned them several times in passing before, but today we are dedicating an entire post to what is undoubtedly our favourite bean that we have ever grown or eaten: the pea bean. We first started growing these five years ago, purely for their looks. But when we came to cook them we were won over – we’ve never gone a year without them since. Although older textbooks sometimes classify them otherwise, pea beans are now categorised as Phaseolus vulgaris: French or ‘kidney’ beans. Pea beans are climbing beans that produce white flowers followed by short pods. The pods start…

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