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- Bush beans in the garden - The cultivation is worthwhile
- Large selection
- Resistant new breeds
- Only a few weeks to harvest
- Bush beans as afterculture
- Bush beans as a nitrogen supplier
- Tips & Tricks
Bush beans in the garden - The cultivation is worthwhile
Anyone who relies on the cultivation of particularly easy-care beans, decides for the low-awake bush beans. They are suitable for vegetable dishes, soups and salads, do little work and are ready for harvesting within a few weeks. They are ideal as afterculture and enrich the soil with valuable nitrogen.
Large selection
Bush beans are available in a wide range. The best known are the green fillet beans and the yellow wax beans.So-called bacon types such as "Golden Teepee" make their fruit over the foliage and facilitate the harvest. The varieties appear extravagant with blue pods like "Purple Teepee" and "Bluevetta".
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 greasy spot disease and very weather resistant. Resistant varieties are not inhibited in their growth and crop failure is unlikely.
Only a few weeks to harvest
Most bush beans only need ten weeks to harvest. Early ripening varieties make it in just six weeks. The maintenance effort until then is low.
The bean seed can be sown directly into the warm bed. De care consists of regular watering and weeding. You only have to fertilize when preparing the soil.
Bush beans as afterculture
Bush beans are weak eaters and therefore an ideal afterculture. Where previously strong-consuming vegetables such as potatoes, tomatoes or zucchini grew, you can then plant the bed with bush beans.
Because of their short ripening time, bush beans are also suitable as a follow-up culture to 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 via their roots to the ground. So they not only feed themselves with nitrogen, from the nitrogen enrichment of the soil also benefit subsequent vegetables. The roots therefore remain in the soil, you remove after harvesting only the upper part of the plant.
Tips & Tricks
You can not get enough of the tender bush beans. Then just build them twice in a row. When sowing for the first time in May, you can harvest in July. At the same place you build again until the end of July, then there are fresh beans until October.