Green Bean

Phaseolus vulgaris

Also known as string bean (en)

A variety of bean

Sun requirement for green bean: Plant in Partial Sun

Green beans are the unripe, young fruit and protective pods of various cultivars of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). Immature or young pods of the runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus), yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis), and hyacinth bean (Lablab purpureus) are used in a similar way.

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3: harvests
4: seed packets

Growing green beans

Annual

living and reproducing in a single year or less

Median lifespan

18 weeks

First harvest expected

17 weeks after planting

Last harvest expected

18 weeks after planting

Height

250cm

Spread

30cm

Row Spacing

80cm

Grown for

pod harvested 2 times

How members grow green beans

Sunniness

Planted from

Harvested for

Varieties of green bean

blue lake bean

French bean

yardlong bean

Vigna unguiculata (sesquipedalis)

purple yard long bean

vigna unguiculata

Photos

Green bean plantings

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Beans

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climber beans

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Climbing beans

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Green bean seeds

Beans

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More photos

Video

Where green beans grow

Only plantings by members who have set their locations are shown.

What people are saying about green beans

First strawberry!

by neotoma,

I had the first tiny strawberry of the season today! I'm looking forward to many more.

Also, I transplanted a lot of seedlings into the community garden today: 2 cucumbers, 3 green beans, 2 tongue-of-fire beans, an ornamental [sweet potato](/crops/sweet-po…

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Green Bean

Growing green beans