Beans are among the easiest vegetables to grow. There are beans grown to be eaten fresh as vegetables, while others are grown to be dried and eaten as cereals. Two common categories of green beans are pole beans, which grow up to six feet, and bush beans that reach a maximum of two feet. This article will help you decide which one to go for if you are planning to start a garden.
Bush beans are a variety of beans that typically grow laterally and have a bushy growth and often require no support, whereas pole beans are those bean plants that grow taller, requiring support such as a wall, trellis or tree. They may not be ideal to plant in a limited space and are planted side by side in double rows. They mature at a fast rate, in comparison to pole beans and also mature at the same time, hence has the same maturity time frame.
For this reason, they are preferable to persons who like their produce canned or frozen. The ideal climate for farming bush beans is hot weather.
Some varieties of bush beans include green beans varieties such as tender crop, provider, derby and Nash. Pole beans do not require a lot of space as they have vertical growth.
On the other hand, bush beans require a lot of space as they are planted side by side in double rows. While the ideal climatic conditions for farming pole beans is cool weather, the ideal climatic conditions for farming bush beans is hot weather. Pole beans keep producing as they are harvested, hence does not mature at the same time. On the other hand, bush beans mature at the same time and at a fast rate in comparison to pole beans.
While pole beans are planted against a pole or a trellis for support, bush beans are planted side by side in double rows. Pole beans are easy to harvest by hand due to easier visibility of the yields. On the other hand, bush beans may not be easy to harvest by hand as they grow closer together. While pole require less space as they grow vertically, bush beans requires a lot of space as they are planted side by side in rows. Both types, however, produce great yields and are easy to grow.
Difference Between Similar Terms and Objects. MLA 8 Njogu, Tabitha. Name required. Email required. Please note: comment moderation is enabled and may delay your comment. Beans are a good crop to plant when gardening with kids. The seeds are quite large and the kids will be able to plant them easily. Where to plant the seeds depends on your garden space and type of bean chosen.
Planting pole beans around a teepee is a matter of placing the seeds an inch deep in a circle around each leg of the support. Bush beans are often planted in double rows side by side that are close together so that each row supports the other side and negates the need for a trellis or other form of support.
Both a bush bean plant and a pole bean plant will flower right before they start to set beans. This normally takes about 55 days from planting for bush beans and 65 days for pole beans.
To decide how much to plant, plan on bush beans plants or hills of pole beans plants one teepee per person in your family to give an ample harvest all summer long.
A bush beans plant has a short growing time to harvest, so it is a good idea to plant a second set of bush bean seeds about weeks after the first planting. This will give you a steady harvest of beans all summer long.
Both bush beans and pole beans come in different colors. The most commonly grown ones are green and yellow, but purple, red yellow and mottled beans are also popular.
There is a reason that yellow beans are more expensive than green beans. The plants grow more slowly and produce less beans.
I planted some yellow bush beans in mid June and some green bush beans in late August last year. The green bean plants grew about 8 inches taller with many more and much larger beans when compared at the same time, even though they had been growing for a shorter period of time.
The trick to getting a great bean harvest is to pick the beans regularly. If you wait to pick, the bean pods will grow too large and the beans will be tough and stringy and the overall harvest smaller. If you harvest regularly once the plants are mature, every day or so the plants will continue producing more beans for weeks so you will get a larger crop.
Both pole beans and bush beans are candidates for saving seeds, if you plant heirloom seeds to begin with. This will give you a batch of seeds to use the following year without having to purchase new seed.
Both pole and bush beans are dependable and easy to grow, giving very large harvests for a small effort. They are the perfect choice for beginning gardeners, including children, and seasoned pros as well. Why not grow some delicious green beans for your family this year? Would you like a reminder of this post about growing green beans? Just pin this image to one of your gardening boards on Pinterest so that you can easily find it later.
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Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser. Great article Carol. I grow multiple varieties of pole and bush beans.
I have been vegetable gardening for over 50 years and over time have steadily moved them to one of my favorite crops. Besides their ease of growing and steady yield throughout the season with succession planting they are one of the most versatile vegetables to compliment the other goodies that come from the garden on a more limited basis.
We never get tired of the different ways they can be incorporated into meals, appetizers, and snacks. Our favorite way to preserve them is pickled dilly beans. I also can and freeze them and enjoy serving them out of season especially with Holiday meals. Some beans are known as "Half Runner" beans. These are a bush bean type that does produce tendrils, even though they are shorter. You will need to watch and not let your beans dry out too much, if you are having a dry spell, because this will make them tough.
Question: I think some of my beans got mixed up, but not sure. Can pinto or black beans be climbers?? I've always seen white flowers on the green beans, does the purple flower indicate a different bean like black or pinto??
I'm just really confused, because the pinto and black beans needed trellises too and yet you can clearly see they are producing seed pods conducive with their type of bean We thought the only climbers where the pole green beans, are we wrong????
Both black beans and pinto beans come in the bush and pole variety. Not sure about the purple flowers. Hyacinth beans have purple flowers but they are more ornamental than edible.
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