Snap Bean
Tips And Hints For Growing Easy-Care Warm-Season Crops
Planting months: March through July, but early planting beats pests. Spacing: In rows thin to 11/2 inches apart/ pole bean,plant 6, thin to 3. Special Tips: Presprout seeds in heavy clay soils, especially if cold and wet. Or dig furrow, water twice, plant seeds scar side down, cover with potting soil, don’t water again until sprouts appear, then water deeply. Cover seeds with inverted berry basket to discourage birds. Harvest:50 to 60 days, before pods bulge with seeds. Pick daily so plants keep bearing. Recommended Varieties: Kentucky Wonder (brown seeded, not white seeded. Don’t buy Kentucky Blue), Blue Lake pole bean, Venture early bush bean (easy and tastes as good as Blue Lake), Pencil Pod (an early bush wax bean), Dorabel Yellow Wax pole bean, Royal Burgundy bush bean or try Violet Podded Stringless (a purple pole bean from Territorial Seeds), Jumbo (excellent cross between Romano /Kentucky Wonder.)
NOTE: If you are growing vegetables year-round there will be some carry over of cool-season crops into warm weather, for example artichokes, which can be put in from transplants in March and harvested in June, or globe onions, which are planted from seeds in November and harvested in late May or June, and strawberries which are also planted in November and harvested throughout spring into early summer.