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Bush bean planting calendar and growing plan

Bush beans are direct sown into warm soil. Their compact habit and successive plantings are planned separately from climbing pole beans.

Plan dates for Bush bean

Editable example

Use your local frost dates. No location needed.

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Start indoors

Not part of this crop’s reviewed method. Status

Transplant outside

Not part of this crop’s reviewed method. Status

Direct sow

May 1, 2027 Earliest reference

Direct sowing and transplanting are alternative ways to start a crop. Keep the tasks that match your method.

Sources and conditions

The selected bush-bean method is direct sowing.

  • These are reviewed planning references. Check the variety, local soil and weather before acting; a frost date is not a forecast.
  • This preset follows direct sowing; it does not schedule a separate nursery period.
University of Minnesota Extension · Growing beans in home gardens ↗

No transplant action is supplied by this selected direct-sowing method.

  • These are reviewed planning references. Check the variety, local soil and weather before acting; a frost date is not a forecast.
  • This preset follows direct sowing; it does not schedule a separate nursery period.
University of Minnesota Extension · Growing beans in home gardens ↗

The last-frost boundary is an earliest reference, with an additional soil-warmth requirement.

  • These are reviewed planning references. Check the variety, local soil and weather before acting; a frost date is not a forecast.
  • Sow after last frost when daytime soil temperatures average at least 60°F.
Johnny’s Selected Seeds · Bush Bean — Key Growing Information ↗University of Minnesota Extension · Growing beans in home gardens ↗

A planning reference, not a weather forecast.

Wait for warmth as well as a date

The last-frost boundary is only an earliest reference. The seed source also gives a soil-temperature condition; cold soil can make an apparently timely sowing unsuccessful.

Johnny’s Selected Seeds ↗University of Minnesota Extension ↗

Use one spacing system

The selected layout follows the home-garden row guide. Another source gives a closer sowing rate, but it is not mixed with this system’s row and final-stand assumptions.

University of Minnesota Extension ↗

Make each batch visible

A repeat schedule can distribute sowing across the season. Give each batch its own bed section or record when the preceding stand will be removed, rather than assuming dates create space.

Johnny’s Selected Seeds ↗University of Minnesota Extension ↗

Questions growers ask

Why does this interval differ from another bean guide?

Reviewed sources suggest different intervals under different practices. This preset selects the succession chart and preserves that source; a longer interval can be saved as a user override.

Sources and conditions

These sources describe particular climates and growing methods. Use the conditions alongside the numbers.

Bush Bean — Key Growing Information ↗

Direct-sown bush beans after frost with warmed soil. Its longer interval suggestion is not silently mixed with the selected succession chart.

Succession Planting Charts for Vegetables ↗

General intervals under standard growing practices. Crop purpose and protected-cover exceptions matter; these are not harvest guarantees.

Growing beans in home gardens ↗

Bush snap beans and pole beans have distinct support and succession needs; other bean species are excluded.