French bean "Fruidor", yellow, 20 seeds, Baltic Agro

• Species: Phaseolus vulgaris — dwarf French bean
• Variety: "Fruidor" — yellow, stringless
• Producer: Baltic Agro
• Packet: 20 seeds
• Height: 45 cm, no support needed
• Pod: 12–13 cm, golden yellow, stringless and parchment-free
• Harvest: 55–65 days after emergence, July–September
• Sowing: direct, late May to June, 3–4 cm deep
• Spacing: 20 × 30 cm
• Soil: warmed to at least +12 °C
• Position: sunny and sheltered
• Uses: boiling, freezing, pickling

When to sow. Beans are frost-tender: the soil must be at least +12 °C, so late May or early June. Sowing earlier gains nothing — the seed just rots.

Do not soak. A swollen seed splits in cool soil. Sow into a moist drill and keep off the watering can until the plants are up.

No nitrogen. Beans fix their own. An overfed plant runs to leaf and sets no pods. Give ash or potassium before sowing.

Watering. Sparing until flowering, even during flowering and pod fill. Water at the root — wet leaves bring disease.

Picking. Every 3–4 days, with both hands: hold the stem with one, snap the pod with the other. A yellow pod is easy to spot, so none get missed. Regular picking extends the crop by a month.

Watch out for. A cold wet June (resow), aphids on the shoot tips and anthracnose in a rainy summer. Do not walk among wet plants — the disease travels on clothes.