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Bean, Blue Lake Pole Bulk Pack Seeds
Phaseolus vulgaris
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Cultivate your own nutritious and delectable bean harvest using our Blue Lake Pole Bulk Pack of seeds.
This early maturing stringless bean has a nice mild flavor. The 15 cm (6") long, straight-podded beans are tender and meaty. The small seeds keep pods round and smooth. Great for preserving.
- SKU: 143656
- Common Name: Bean
- Botanical Name: Phaseolus vulgaris
Growing Information
Safe
for Bees
Grows
Best In:
Full Sun
Days to
Germination:
6 - 14 days
Water
Needs:
Average 2.5-5 cm (1-2 in.) per week
Days to
Maturity:
60 - 70 days
Growing Height:
2 m (6.5 ft)
Key Features
- Plant Type: Vegetable
- Plant Lifecycle: Annual (plant every year)
- Seed Type: Open Pollinated
- Fill Weight (grams): 49 g per packet
- Approximate Seed Count: 125-140 Per Packet
- Characteristics: Stringless pods | Heavy yielder | Preserving variety | Frost-sensitive
- Planting Method: Direct Sow
- Colour: Green
- Water Needs: Average 2.5-5 cm (1-2 in.) per week
- Landscape Use: Edible Garden
- Growth Habit: Pole
- Resistance: BCMV (Bean Common Mosaic Virus)
- Companion Planting:
Plant near beets, corn, lovage, naturtiums, rosemary, squash, strawberries, sunflowers
- Flavour: Stringless, firm, plump pods with traditional bean flavor
- Preparation Ideas: Rinse beans under water. Dry and cut off both ends of beans. Snip beans into 1 in. pieces. Place beans into large frying pan and add enough water to cover beans. Bring water to boil. Reduce heat, cover the pan and simmer beans until fork tender. Drain beans and add butter, salt and pepper and any other spices you desire.
Instructions
Beans are a warm season crop and seeds should be sown directly into the garden when the soil is warm and all danger of frost is past. Optimum soil temperature (not air temperature) should be 15-29°C (59-84°F) for seeds to germinate. Planting at a lower temperature will delay germination. Space seeds and plant to the depth indicated below. Press seeds into the soil to ensure good contact and cover with 1.3 cm (1/2 in.) of soil. After planting, water the seeds with a gentle mist or shower. It is critical to keep the soil consistently moist, but not soggy during germination. When your seedlings reach a height of a few centimetres (inches) and have developed 2 or 3 pairs of leaves, it is important to thin them out, according to the plant spacing indicated below. Do not allow the soil to become dry, as young plants have underdeveloped roots and can quickly dehydrate, particularly in windy conditions.
- Planting Depth: 2.5 cm (1in.)
- Seed Spacing: Sow beans seeds roughly 10 cm (4 in.) apart in rows, keeping rows approximately 60cm (24 in.) apart.
- Plant Spacing: 15 cm (6 in.)
- Instructions for Nutrient Care: Apply SUPERThrive once per week. Soak in solution of 1/4 tsp per gal for 15 min. or longer depending on size and type.
Suggestions
Growing Suggestions:
- Pole beans grow as climbing vines and require a trellis or fence for support. Support should be put in place when planting seeds.
- Bean seeds can be succession planted every 2 to 3 weeks until mid-July for a continuous supply of fresh beans.
- For best taste, harvest pods when they are the thickness of a pencil.
- Keep picking regularly to ensure continuous production.
- Too many beans maturing at one time? Try sowing 1/2 or 1/3 of a row one or two weeks apart to extend the harvesting of fresh flavorful beans.
- Avoid working among plants while the foliage is damp or wet as this can encourage and spread fungal and bacterial diseases such as powdery mildew, blight, rust, etc.
- When weeding, hoe gently because beans are shallow-rooted. Mulch plants only after thinning.
- Avoid fertilizing with nitrogen, which results in a surplus of foliage and low, delayed pod growth.
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Overall rating: 4.56 / 5 from 25 reviews.
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Great product
"Great product"
Pole Beans
"Received quickly after ordering. All ready to plant in the early spring."
Reliable With Patience
"Although seeds were slow to germinate in poor/moderate soil, once established they produced a nice crop of straight, uniform and tasty beans. Our weather was very hot yet they matured, steadily over time. No evidence of disease."
Great choice and heavy producer
"The bean seeds are great and produce lots of great tasting beans"
Awesome product
"Growing well"
Good beans
"Good beans whether for pods or seeds."
The beans in the package are tiny!
"I bought a pack in the garden centre of a major-chain hardware store. The package contains 70 seeds weighing 17 grams. Not 45-50 seeds weighing 18 grams. So, the beans are well below what the average size should be going by the information on the website. I wonder what the germination rate will be and whether the plants will grow to be strong and productive. Time will tell."
Great, pack of seeds, there
"Great, pack of seeds, there seem to be lots in the package, looking forward to spring"
Beans
"Beans"
