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Note: Germination instructions are not on seed packets, follow the instructions below for starting seed.
How to Grow Bush Beans
Bush Beans include such favorites as listed below, unlike pole-beans these are determinate, which means they grow to a certain size, blossom, fruit and stop growing. Because the best part of a bush bean harvest only lasts a few weeks, you'll enjoy more, and better-tasting beans if you make small plantings every 10 days.
Sowing
Seed Depth: 1" (2.5 cm), 6-8 seeds per hill
Germination soil temperature: 75-85ºF (24-29ºC)
Days to Germination: 7-10
Sow indoors: Not recommended
Sow outdoors: When soil temperature reaches 60ºF (16ºC)
Growing
Watering: Low at planting, medium at flowering and then heavy through harvest.
Light: Full Sun
Nutrient requirements: N=low, P=moderate, K=moderate.
Rotation considerations: Because they get along with just about all vegetables except members of the onion family, bush beans can go almost anywhere and be followed by just about anything.
Good companions: Beet, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, celery, corn, cucumber, eggplant, leek, marigold, pea, potato, radish, rosemary, strawberry and sunflower.
Bad companions: Basil, fennel, kohlrabi, onion family.
How to Grow Pole Beans
Flavor is always a debatable point, however a lot of people who grow both Bush and pole beans think that pole beans are sweeter, more tender, and better tasting of the two. There is no debate regarding yields. Pole beans produce more pods per plant than bush types, plus they're easier to pick. Most of the growing information for bush types also works for pole beans, with a few exceptions. Because pole beans are vining plants, (indeterminate), they need support to produce the best crops.
Sowing
Seed Depth: 1" (2.5 cm), 6-8 seeds per hill
Germination soil temperature: 75-85ºF (24-29ºC)
Days to Germination: 7-10
Sow indoors: Not recommended
Sow outdoors: When soil temperature reaches 60ºF (16ºC)
Growing
Watering: Low at planting, medium at flowering and then heavy through harvest.
Light: Full Sun
Nutrient requirements: N=low, P=moderate, K=moderate.