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Grow beans in full sun, 8 hours of sun or more each day.

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Bean diseases proliferate in wet soil that is slow to drain so adding organic matter to the bean patch is important. (But beans will grow in soil that is sandy, rocky, and even clayey.) Turn your soil to a depth of 6 to 8 inches and add aged compost in advance of planting. But if you have few alternative growing spots and there was no disease in that spot this past season you can plant again in the same spot once the soil has been enriched.īeans grow best in loose, well-worked, well-drained soil rich in organic matter. It is best not to grow beans in the same ground within 2 or 3 years as diseases are likely to harbor in bean refuse. Plant snap beans in a spot that gets full sun throughout the spring and summer, is out of the reach of a constant breeze, and drains well.

Beans will not set pods in temperatures above 80☏ (26.7☌).

Snap beans can continue in the garden until the first frost in fall.

For continuous fresh harvest through the growing season, sow a succession crop of bush snap beans every two weeks.

Pods on bush beans come to harvest over a two-week period pole bean plants will produce pods for a month or more.

Pole snap beans are tall growers, as tall as 8 to 10 feet (2.4-3m) growing on a trellis or support.

Bush snap beans are compact growers, about 24 inches (61cm) wide, and tall.

To get an early start on the season, sow snap beans indoors as early as 3 or 4 weeks before the average last frost date for transplanting into the garden a week or two after the last frost–when all danger of frost is past.

Direct sow snap beans in the garden just after the average date of the last frost in spring.

Plant bush beans every 10 days or so for a continuous harvest throughout the season, or plant bush beans early in the season for a harvest before pole beans are ready or late in the season to claim one more heavy harvest ahead of frost. But one pole bean plant will yield more pods than one bush bean plant. A succession of bush bean plantings will give you a higher yield continuously through the season. Pole beans are indeterminate-meaning they continue growing through the season, require support as they vine, and flower and produce pods through the season spreading bean production out over the length of the season.īush beans are a good choice if you want your crop to be ready almost all at once for canning or freezing.

Bush beans come to harvest almost all at once then pickings quickly dwindle. Both will be tender if harvested young when the pod tips are still soft, both will be tougher if left on the plant too long.īush beans are determinate-meaning they grow to a certain size (about 2 feet tall), blossom, turn out a single flush or harvest of beans, and then die. Bush snap beans are mildly flavored pole snap beans have a more pronounced bean flavor.

Snap beans-bush and pole varieties–are harvested young and tender you eat them pod and all.

Yard-long bean or asparagus bean or Chinese long bean.

Butterbean or sieva, civet, or seewee bean.