Rosso di Lucca. Listed on Slow Food Foundation's Arc of Taste, this northern Italian heirloom is intensely flavoured and creamy.

Gardeners: This is a bush bean, meaning that it bushes out to a height of 18-24", and produces most of its beans in a flush of 2-4 weeks. Bush beans benefit from, but don't need, staking.

Packet: minimum 30 seeds

Produced by Unearthed Organics, whose organic certification is valid only in British Columbia.