Bean Growing - Tips for the Best Beans in Your Vegetable Patch

Careful preparation for each variety of vegetable in your garden layout is crucial to their successful growth. Delicious beans of all kinds are no exception. Follow these tips for a successful crop every season.

As a rule, we choose to grow bush beans rather than pole beans but you can plant tall beans at the rear end of each vegetable row or make arches and train these beans over them to form the arch.

Preparation for bean growing needs to accommodate the need these vegetables have for rich, warm, sandy soil.  To prepare the best soil for beans, dig deeply and work it over thoroughly for this vegetable culture.

Delay planting beans until the soil has warmed up from the chill of spring.  Digging the soil at around this time brings eggs and larvae of insects to the surface.  The birds will be hungry for food and will even follow your hoe to pick from the soil.  A little lime worked in with the soil is also helpful in bean growing.

Another helpful tip when planting beans is to place each bean in the soil edgewise, with the eye down.

Bush beans are planted in drills about eighteen inches apart, while the pole-bean rows should be three feet apart.  The drills for the bush limas should be about three feet apart, further than those for the other dwarf beans.  This amount of separation provides plenty of space for cultivation with the hoe.  If the running beans climb too high just pinch off the extreme end of growth and this will hold back the upward growth.

The bush beans families include the dwarf, snap or string beans, the wax beans, the bush limas and one variety known as brittle beans.  Among the pole beans there are pole limas, wax and scarlet runner.  The scarlet runner is a beauty for decorative effects.  The flowers are scarlet and look impressive when planted against an old fence.  These are lovely in the flower garden too.  If you enjoy a vine, scarlet runner bean growing is prefect as this plant provides a vegetable, bright flowers and a screen all from the one plant.

Careful preparation for each variety of vegetable in your garden layout is crucial to their successful growth. Delicious beans of all kinds are no exception. Follow these tips for a successful crop every season.

As a rule, we choose to grow bush beans rather than pole beans but you can plant tall beans at the rear end of each vegetable row or make arches and train these beans over them to form the arch.

Preparation for bean growing needs to accommodate the need these vegetables have for rich, warm, sandy soil.  To prepare the best soil for beans, dig deeply and work it over thoroughly for this vegetable culture.

Delay planting beans until the soil has warmed up from the chill of spring.  Digging the soil at around this time brings eggs and larvae of insects to the surface.  The birds will be hungry for food and will even follow your hoe to pick from the soil.  A little lime worked in with the soil is also helpful in bean growing.

Another helpful tip when planting beans is to place each bean in the soil edgewise, with the eye down.

Bush beans are planted in drills about eighteen inches apart, while the pole-bean rows should be three feet apart.  The drills for the bush limas should be about three feet apart, further than those for the other dwarf beans.  This amount of separation provides plenty of space for cultivation with the hoe.  If the running beans climb too high just pinch off the extreme end of growth and this will hold back the upward growth.

The bush beans families include the dwarf, snap or string beans, the wax beans, the bush limas and one variety known as brittle beans.  Among the pole beans there are pole limas, wax and scarlet runner.  The scarlet runner is a beauty for decorative effects.  The flowers are scarlet and look impressive when planted against an old fence.  These are lovely in the flower garden too.  If you enjoy a vine, scarlet runner bean growing is prefect as this plant provides a vegetable, bright flowers and a screen all from the one plant.

For additional information about successful vegetable gardens read my other articles on this site.

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