Suttons Bean (runner) - Black Knight
Product Code: 301409
£4.49
- Juicy and stringless (when young) variety!
- Produces masses of pods that go from green to dark purple/almost black as they age.
- Scarlet flowered.
- Extremely visible on the plant and easy to pick in the kitchen garden.
Description
Description
The story is that this runner bean has been grown by the Bishop of Shrewsbury, Edmund Knight, and to have been passed to some of the local congregants in the late 1800’s. This could be true or an old wife’s tale, but where it originates from has been certainly been lost in time and history.