![]() Most beans grown in New Zealand are cultivars of Phaseolus vulgaris, the so-called French beans, including butter beans, purple or blue beans, round French beans, flat Italian beans and drying beans like borlotti and cannellini.Ĭlimbing beans produce over a long season and are extremely productive for the space they take up. Bean basicsīefore you plant anything, it helps to know what kind of bean you are growing: especially whether it’s climbing or dwarf. Runner beans grown up a climbing frame, take up very little garden space and crop for a long time. * 10 best value veges: grow these edibles to get the most out of your gardening * Best beans to grow this season according to, yes, the bean counters But if you have problems with slugs, snails or birds attacking your baby bean seedlings, start beans off in trays and transplant when well established, or buy punnets of seedlings which can be planted from mid-spring to mid-summer in warm places and late spring to early summer in cool ones. The large seed is easy to handle, and this is a great crop to sow direct so your beans grow rapidly from the get-go, rather than having their growth checked by root disturbance when transplanted. Beans require soil to be 18☌ or warmer for optimum germination – if there’s any chance of a late cold spell, or if nights are still noticeably cold where you are, then wait. Get startedĪcross most of the country you can plant and sow beans from mid-spring until early summer, but in cooler places hold off until all risk of frost has passed (if you grow the perennial ‘Scarlet Runner’ beans, when you see the plants pop back up out of the ground, you’ll know it’s warm enough to start your other beans from seed). Bean seeds are large so they’re easy for beginners to handle and they germinate quickly.
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