Notes
Germinates in cool soil better than most snap beans. Three rows on 30-inch. Inoculate first year. Succession every 14 days through July.
Cultivars / Legumes
Provider
Bush Bean · Phaseolus vulgaris
DTM
50 d
84 d occupancy · tender
Rows
3
4 in in-row
Density
9
plants / bed-ft
Yield
1.3
lb / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$4.78
$4.00 / lb
Propagation
- Method
- Direct seed
- Cell size
- —
- Nursery lead
- direct only
- Germination
- 8 d
- Germ temp
- 60°F – 90°F (opt 80°F)
- Seed spacing
- 3 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 3
- In-row
- 4 in
- Seed spacing
- 3 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 9
- Plants / 50 ft
- 450
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 50 d
- Holding
- 18 d
- Occupancy
- 84 d
- Multicut
- yes · 5 cuts · 4 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Tender
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- lb
- Units / bed-ft
- 1.3
- Avg unit wt
- 1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 1.3 lb
- Cull rate
- 8%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $2.25 / $4.00
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 0.95 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 74
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Light
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 0.4 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.25 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 1.1 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.2 / 0.1 / 0.6 lb
- Family
- Fabaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-09-15
- First greenhouse
- —
- First harvest
- 2026-06-04
- Successions that fit
- 4 · every 14 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 42 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 530 seeds · 450 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $134.55 / $239.20
Companions
carrot · cucumber · cabbage
Avoid
onion · fennel