Beans are a delicious, vitamin-rich vegetable. But before the enjoyment comes the cultivation and that begins with the sowing. The easiest way to sow beans is direct sowing in the garden. This is done every year because beans are annuals, with the exception of runner beans that have been carefully overwintered.

Beans can be sown from mid-May

Direct sowing in the bed

Start sowing the beans from mid-May when the ice saints are over. Then the ground temperature should have warmed up to the necessary 10 degrees Celsius.

Since beans only need about 100 days to mature, you can sow until July. Staggered or grown one after the other, you benefit from a long bean harvest.

Before sowing, you loosen the soil of the bean bed well again.
With two sticks and a string you mark a row for the seed. If you are growing several rows of beans, the distance between the rows should be around 80 cm.

Within the rows, the beans are mainly planted in clumps. This is especially true for pole beans and runner beans. You can sow bush beans along the rows in clumps or individually.

This is how the sowing succeeds

  • along the line or cord with the planting iron or your hands every 40 to 50 cm a 3 cm

dig deep hole

  • Put 3 to 5 seeds in it and cover it with soil
  • Alternatively, lay out the bush beans individually at a distance of 6 to 8 cm
  • pour carefully

A head start through soaking and pre-germination

You can achieve faster germination of the seed by soaking the hard shell of the beans in water for 24 hours before sowing.

It is also possible to pregerminate the beans on the windowsill. To do this, the seeds are sown in small pots, placed in a warm place and planted in the bed after the Ice Saints.

tips

The sowing of the beans can be easily marked with small garden markers: Simply write the type of bean on the label and stick it at the beginning of the line.

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Vegetable garden