Those who rely on the cultivation of beans that are particularly easy to care for choose the low-growing bush beans. They are suitable for vegetable dishes, soups and salads, require little work and are ready to harvest after just a few weeks. They are ideal as a follow-up crop and enrich the soil with valuable nitrogen.

Large selection

There is a wide range of bush beans. The best known are the green filet beans and the yellow wax beans. So-called hen types such as "Golden Teepee" form their fruits above the foliage and make harvesting easier. Varieties with blue pods such as "Purple Teepee" and "Bluevetta" appear extravagant.

Resistant new breeds

In addition to the proven, high-yielding varieties, you should also pay attention to new breeds. They are resistant to diseases such as bean mosaic virus or burn and fat spot disease and are very weather resistant. Resistant varieties are not inhibited in their growth and crop failures are not to be expected.

Only a few weeks until harvest

Most bush beans only need ten weeks before the first harvest. Early maturing strains make it in as little as six weeks. The maintenance effort until then is low.

The bush bean seed can be sown directly into the warm bed. De care consists of regular watering and weeding. You only need to fertilize when preparing the soil.

Bush beans as a post-culture

Bush beans are weak consumers and therefore an ideal follow-up culture. You can then plant French beans in the bed where previously heavy-consuming vegetables such as potatoes, tomatoes or zucchini grew.

Because of their short ripening time, bush beans are also suitable as a follow-up crop after early vegetables. If you have harvested peas or carrots, you can sow bush beans on the same bed until the end of July.

Bush beans as a nitrogen supplier

Bush beans are able to bind nitrogen from the air and release it to the soil through their roots. Not only do they feed themselves with nitrogen, the following vegetables also benefit from the nitrogen enrichment of the soil. The roots therefore remain in the ground, you only remove the top part of the plant after harvest.

tips and tricks

You can't get enough of the tender bush beans. Then just grow them twice in a row. With a first sowing from May you can harvest in July. You grow again in the same place until the end of July, then there are fresh beans until October.

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Vegetable garden