Growing beans is easy and promising. Learn how to grow and properly care for pole beans in your garden with our guide so you can enjoy a bountiful harvest.

Bush beans do not need climbing aids, but a little more space

Bush beans or pole beans?

First of all, you should be clear about whether you want to grow bush or pole beans. Pole beans need climbing aids and therefore need a bit more preparation; the green tendrils can visually enrich bare walls or beds with low plants.

Location and planting time for beans

Beans like it warm, especially when sprouting. Therefore, you should plant them in some sunny, wind-protected location. So if you want to sow your beans directly outdoors, you should wait until after the ice saints. Otherwise you can prefer the beans at home on the windowsill or in the greenhouse and thus harvest earlier.

Guide to growing beans

  • beans
  • water
  • Climbing aid for runner beans
  • hoe
  • Watering can or hose for watering

1. Prepare the bed

Pole, bush and field beans are weak consumers, which means they don't need a lot of nutrients. The bed should therefore not be fertilized before sowing.

Instead, loosen the soil a little with a hoe and draw straight rows either by eye or with the help of a rope stretched between two sticks or a long slat.

If you are growing runner beans, attach your trellis now.

2. Sow beans

The ideal planting distance varies depending on the bean variety. It is usually between 5 and 15 cm. Bush beans need a little more space than pole beans because they grow in width.

Beans can also be sown in a clump, i.e. in a group. Five to eight beans are sown in a circle. Sowing in a circle is particularly useful for runner beans: insert a stake in the center of the circle and pull ropes from each bean upwards towards the stake.

Press the beans one to three centimeters deep into the soil and plug the holes.

3. casting

Now water your seed well. Make sure that the bed never dries out completely, especially during the germination phase.

4. Pile up the French beans

Bush beans can be piled up from a size of about 15cm to give them more stability. You'll find more about it here.

You can learn even more about successfully growing beans in the garden from this video:

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In order to protect the beans from pest infestation, it makes sense to grow them in mixed cultures. Get to know more good neighbors for beans here.

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Vegetable garden