Fresh beans are always tasty. If you grow bush beans like "Saxa", "Speedy" and "Pfälzer Juni", you only have to wait six weeks before the first harvest. But the other bush bean varieties are also ready to harvest after about 10 weeks. If you start harvesting early and pick again and again, you can harvest over several weeks.

Harvest time for bush beans

Depending on the variety, the harvest time for bush beans begins in June. Since bush beans can be sown until July, the harvest lasts until October.

Harvest fresh vegetable beans

The most tender beans are those whose pods and kernels are not quite ripe. The seeds should not yet show through the pod. Beans are picked carefully with the fingers. After two to three days you can harvest regrowing pods again.

The bush beans are ripe

If you are not sure whether the bush beans are ripe, the following trick will help:

  • Gently bend the sleeve with your fingers
  • if it breaks through smoothly, it's ripe

Harvest dry beans

Bush beans also include dry beans such as the Canadian Wonder and Borlotto varieties. They remain on the plant until they are fully mature. To dry them out, spread them out next to each other in a dry place, where they can continue to ripen for at least two weeks.

Harvest Tips

  • pick carefully so that supporting shoots are not injured
  • regular picking increases the yield
  • do not harvest when wet to avoid spreading disease
  • beans hanging over the foliage are easy to pick, such as "Golden Teepee"

use beans

Freshly harvested beans taste best when prepared within a few days. They are kept in the fridge. The pods can be made to last longer by boiling and freezing.

Fresh beans are suitable for soups, salads and vegetable dishes. The important thing is to cook them, as raw French beans are poisonous.

tips and tricks

With the cultivation of robust bush bean varieties, you can achieve reliable yields even in unfavorable weather conditions. These include the varieties “St. Andrew",

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Vegetable garden