Vegetable / Warm season
Provider Bush Bean
Reliable compact crop for raised beds and repeat sowings.
Tender green pods with classic snap-bean flavor.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 50
- Germination temperature
- 60-85F
- Seed depth
- 1 inches
- Spacing
- 4 inches
- Row spacing
- 24 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 10 days after last frost
- Fall planting
- 10 weeks before first frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 14 days
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow into the final bed when the soil temperature, seed depth, and moisture are ready.
- How much space?
- 4 inches in-row spacing, 24 inches between rows, and 1 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use crop-family rotation first, then pair with compatible timing, spacing, and canopy size rather than relying on a simple companion chart.
- Common failure modes?
- Cold, wet soil rots bean seed quickly. Moderate, consistent water during flowering and pod set. Warm, well-drained soil; avoid heavy nitrogen.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Moderate, consistent water during flowering and pod set.
- Soil
- Warm, well-drained soil; avoid heavy nitrogen.
- Watch
- Cold, wet soil rots bean seed quickly.
- quick
- no-trellis
- succession
- protein
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Legume Family Rotation and family context
- Warm Season Seeds Season collection
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- Beginner-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Succession Sowing Seeds Practical trait collection
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- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
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Source: CSU vegetable planting guide