🌱 Sowing & planting
- Sowing depth: 5 cm
- Sowing distance bush beans: 5 cm between plants, 35 cm between rows
- Sowing distance for pole beans: 5-10 cm between plants, 10 cm around each stake; stakes 50 cm apart in the row and 70 cm across from each other
- Germination: 16 °C, 6-12 days
- Planting distance bush beans: 20 cm between plants, 45 cm between rows
- Planting distance for pole beans: 10 cm in a circle around each pole; poles 50 cm apart in the row and 70 cm opposite each other
- Plant out as: two true leaves (sowing in situ gives better results)
- Growth cycle: 115 days
📅 Growing times throughout the year
- Bush runner bean: sow outdoors mid-May-mid-June; harvest mid-July-September.
- Early French runner bean: sow under glass in mid-April-early May; plant outdoors in May; harvest in July-August.
- Standard French bean: sow outdoors mid-May-end June; harvest late July-September.
Start cultivation (sowing)
Harvesting
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN
Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Bush runner bean (outdoor)
🪟 Early French bean (glass → outside)
Normal French bean (outdoor)
🏠 Inside
🪟 Greenhouse / conservatory
Outside
🌿 Popular breeds
- French beans (pole): Helda , Councillor type Veense , Farmer's toes large-seeded
- French beans (bush): Admires
