Bush Bean Seeds
How to Grow Bush Beans
Bush Beans include such favorites as listed below, unlike pole-beans these are determinate, which means they grow to a certain size, blossom, fruit and stop growing. Because the best part of a bush bean harvest only lasts a few weeks, you'll enjoy more, and better-tasting beans if you make small plantings every 10 days.
Sowing
Seed Depth: 1" (2.5 cm), 6-8 seeds per hill
Germination soil temperature: 75-85ºF (24-29ºC)
Days to Germination: 7-10
Sow indoors: Not recommended
Sow outdoors: When soil temperature reaches 60ºF (16ºC)
Growing
Watering: Low at planting, medium at flowering and then heavy through harvest.
Light: Full Sun
Nutrient requirements: N=low, P=moderate, K=moderate.
Rotation considerations: Because they get along with just about all vegetables except members of the onion family, bush beans can go almost anywhere and be followed by just about anything.
Good companions: Beet, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, celery, corn, cucumber, eggplant, leek, marigold, pea, potato, radish, rosemary, strawberry and sunflower.
Bad companions: Basil, fennel, kohlrabi, onion family.
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