Growing Bush Beans

Rich, delicious bean flavor. Buckskin color seeds. Purple outside with a bright green inside! The Royal Burgundy bean is absolutely delicious! This purple bean plant grows upright, 24 inch tall plants hold their pencil-shaped pods off the ground.

One of the most consistent, great tasting beans around. Perfect for the gardener with little time. A very consistent high quality bean. The Slenderwax is an easy-to-grow bean that is very care-free and disease resistant.

6-7″ stringless pods are great young. An Italian bean that can be eaten fresh, frozen or canned. A great market bean with vibrant color. This bush bean is a beautiful yet tasty bean! The fresh shell beans are large and round shaped.

This is the one of the most popular and trusted beans for home gardens. A prolific producer over a long season of beans that can be eaten fresh or frozen. Heirloom bush bean plant with high yields and dark green color! Stringless bean variety known for...

A highly productive and long standing bush bean. As the name hints, the seeds are black. A great all-purpose type, that is great fresh, canned, or frozen. Also known as ‘Eastern Black Wax', these beans are bushy, vigorous, and resistant to rust and...

Very straight pods that look great for market selling. Improved Blue Lake bean. Fast maturing and small seeds when picked for fresh eating. So, so good! The Slenderette bean is slow to become fibrous, giving it a quality that in unmatched by any other...

The Harvester bean has tender pods growing as long as 6″ long. Excellent taste and easy to grow. Harvest early for stringless beans. The bean pods are high off the ground for easy picking.

Pick on the early end of the harvest date for smaller and more tender beans. Stringless, bush bean that matures early. Beans start producing about a week before most other varieties.

One of the best known beans around. Harvest on the early side of maturity to get small and tender beans. Topcrop got it's name for a reason. A great bean for canning and freezing. This bean plant grows a heavy, concentrated set of beans.

Your standard black-seeded bean. Excellent cooking bean. This bean plant will have mature beans in just 50 days. Fast maturing and easy to pick. The Cherokee bean is a great black bean for your home garden.

This gourmet blend is excellent for fresh eating and canning. All bush varieties that are high yielding and mature around the same time! Even mix of Slenderette, Royal Burgundy Purple and Cherokee Wax.

These bean plants will produce some of the highest bean yields you'll ever see. Best eaten fresh. One of the highest yielding beans around. The Tendergreen Improved bean plant is a widely adapted home garden variety.

Roma II is a bush type bean plant that produces high yields of flavorful Italian green beans. Very slow to produce bean seeds which make it great for eating fresh. You can see the slow development of seeds in the sliced bean picture.

Medium green, 5″ round pod with good disease tolerance. Excellent flavor that is very popular with commercial growers. One of the heaviest yielding bush beans on the market. Continuous setting feature protects grower from stress, better than concentrated...

A very popular Latin favorite. A tasty variety that grows upright with black beans inside the pod. Tall bush that keeps the bean pods off the ground.

Pick when pods are nearly full size and seeds are still small. Ready for harvest about 2 weeks after bloom. IR indicates intermediate resistance. They are also nitrogen-fixing legumes; beans gather nitrogen from the air and load it into the soil to feed...

Ready for harvest about 2 weeks after bloom. Avoid wetting the foliage, remove plants at end of the year, 3-4 year crop rotation. Store at 40-45°F and 95% relative humidity HR indicates high resistance.

Maroon colored beans are decorated with darker red, cranberry markings. This variety dates back to the 1800s and is well-suited to short-season, cool summer climates. An incredible bean variety that can be used as a snap, shell or dry bean.

Ready for harvest about 2 weeks after bloom. Avoid wetting the foliage, remove plants at end of the year, 3-4 year crop rotation. Store at 40-45°F and 95% relative humidity HR indicates high resistance.

Pick when pods are nearly full size and seeds are still small. Ready for harvest about 2 weeks after bloom. IR indicates intermediate resistance. They are also nitrogen-fixing legumes; beans gather nitrogen from the air and load it into the soil to feed...

Ready for harvest about 2 weeks after bloom. Avoid wetting the foliage, remove plants at end of the year, 3-4 year crop rotation. Store at 40-45°F and 95% relative humidity HR indicates high resistance.

Ready for harvest about 2 weeks after bloom. Avoid wetting the foliage, remove plants at end of the year, 3-4 year crop rotation. Store at 40-45°F and 95% relative humidity HR indicates high resistance.

Ready for harvest about 2 weeks after bloom. Avoid wetting the foliage, remove plants at end of the year, 3-4 year crop rotation. Store at 40-45°F and 95% relative humidity HR indicates high resistance.

Beans are shallow rooted and can require up to 1/4 inch of water a day during hot weather. HR: BB, BBS, BMV, CTM, HB. We found its field-holding ability outstanding. Days to maturity are calculated from date of direct seeding.

Harvest every 3-5 days to increase yields. Ready for harvest about 2 weeks after bloom. Pick when pods are nearly full size and seeds are still small. They are also nitrogen-fixing legumes; beans gather nitrogen from the air and load it into the soil...

Pick when pods are nearly full size and seeds are still small. Ready for harvest about 2 weeks after bloom. IR indicates intermediate resistance. They are also nitrogen-fixing legumes; beans gather nitrogen from the air and load it into the soil to feed...

Dark-colored seeds germinate better in cool soil than white seeds.Plow under or remove and compost bean straw in the fall to hasten destruction of most disease organisms. Practice a 3-year crop rotation, preferably into corn or grain crops.