Some excellent pole bean varieties are ‘Kentucky Wonder’, ‘Scarlet Runner’, and ‘Blue ... plants healthy and productive.

Follow our guide to growing these beans ... be grown successfully in pots. Sowing seeds indoors gives a faster and more reliable germination rate, particularly for runner beans.

Sow the seeds into individual small pots or module trays containing a Best Buy compost for sowing seeds. The plants will be ready to plant outdoors when they're about two weeks old - don't plant out ...