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Bean 'Flagrano' French Flageolet
Bean 'Flagrano' French Flageolet
Phaseolus vulgaris
With a flavour boasting nutty, sweet and mellow tasting notes and a firm and creamy texture, this French heirloom from 1870’s is a culinary delicacy! ‘Flagrano's’ pods contain 8–10 mint-green firm seeds, delicious fresh or dried.
We love these in summer mixed into salads with tomatoes, onions and capsicum - cooked in a broth with bay leaves and summer savoury. And in winter, the dried beans offer great flavour and texture to minestrone soups and chicken cassoulet!
For continuous harvest of fresh seeds, we successively sow this bush bean throughout the late spring and early summer. Each plant will continue to produce pods if regularly harvested.
The bean can be matured on the plant until almost dry to retain more of the green colour on the seed. For storing, we allow the pod to dry fully on the plant.
‘Flagrano’ is a descendant of ‘Flageolet vert’ or ‘Green Flageolet’. It was first obtained by a French grower called Gabriel Chevrier, in Brétigny-sur-Orge, a suburb of Paris, between 1872 and 1878.
High resistance to anthracnose, bean mosaic virus, and halo blight.
The pods are not edible - just the beans inside. Dried beans last many, many years!
SEED COUNT: 30 approx, 100 grams
average 3,500 seeds/ kilo
Germination: Lot#18016 99% Aug 2023
Seed Raising, Growing and Harvest Information
| Plant Type | Site | Spacing | Height | Sowing Depth |
Days to Germination |
Days to Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual | Full Sun | 5cm apart in 2 rows on a 75cm bed |
40-50cm | 2.5cm | 4-6 days @ 21-32°C |
78 days green 95 days dried |
DIRECT SEED (Recommended) - Flagrano beans require a warm soil temperature. For quick germination and better growth, wait for the soil temperature to warm to at least 22°C but preferably 25°C. Sow 2.5cm deep at 5cm spacing, 2 rows per 75cm bed. Do not thin. For a continuous supply make successive sowings every 2–3 weeks through midsummer.
TRANSPLANT - Not recommended
HARVEST - At green stage, pick when pods are plump for fresh eating or wait until the pod has dried but is still green to have dried beans that retain the green colour. For storing dried beans, wait until the pods are fully dried to shell dry bean.
