Notes
Dark-green filet/snap. The market bean after Provider.
Cultivars / Legumes
Jade
Snap bean · Phaseolus vulgaris
DTM
55 d
82 d occupancy · tender
Rows
2
3 in in-row
Density
8
plants / bed-ft
Yield
1.4
lb / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$5.67
$4.50 / lb
Propagation
- Method
- Direct seed
- Cell size
- —
- Nursery lead
- direct only
- Germination
- 7 d
- Germ temp
- 60°F – 90°F (opt 80°F)
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 2
- In-row
- 3 in
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 8
- Plants / 50 ft
- 400
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 55 d
- Holding
- 12 d
- Occupancy
- 82 d
- Multicut
- yes · 4 cuts · 5 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1.1
- Frost hardiness
- Tender
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- lb
- Units / bed-ft
- 1.4
- Avg unit wt
- 1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 1.4 lb
- Cull rate
- 10%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $2.75 / $4.50
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 1 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 77.9
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Light
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 0.8 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.35 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 1.2 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.4 / 0.2 / 0.6 lb
- Family
- Fabaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-09-15
- First greenhouse
- —
- First harvest
- 2026-06-09
- Successions that fit
- 5 · every 14 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 40 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 471 seeds · 400 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $173.25 / $283.50
Companions
carrot · cucumber · corn
Avoid
allium · fennel