WELL-known to many of the gardening fraternity is Huntington-based mail-order firm S. E. Marshall, leading specialists in vegetables. Famous for its Ten Globe and Showmaster onion sets, its range of vegetable seeds has earned the company a widespread reputation.
Such is the quality of its seed list that the Cambridgeshire firm, for the past three years, has held the title 'Garden Catalogue of the Year' and in 2009 won a silver-gilt medal for its fruit and vegetables at the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show.
Broad bean Jade
A glance through the firm's catalogue reveals a number of new introductions to an already vast range. A Marshall's exclusive is broad bean Jade with upright pods produced on stocky plants.
Among the other new beans are Stanley, a white-seeded dwarf French bean delivering abundant yields of long, straight pods of top quality; Isobel, a robust and vigorous climbing French producing clusters of pencil-podded, flavourful beans; and a runner bean named St George with ornamental bi-colour flowers of red and white, going on to produce a high yield of crisp, juicy pods with good snap. This heavy cropper outperformed every other bean at the RHS Wisely and National Vegetable Society trials.
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