PlantSowGrowHow to grow Haricot Bean (Cannellini)
Phaseolus vulgaris
🥕 Vegetable
🌱 Grown each year
A dwarf bean grown for its white seeds, dried for soups, stews and baked beans. Leave the pods on the plant to ripen.
At a glance: Sow late April to late May, harvest from late July.
When to sow, plant and harvest
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Sow outdoors
Harvest
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Haricot Bean (Cannellini): what it needs
- Light
- Full sun · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water regularly in dry weather
- Soil
- Fertile, well-drained soil
- Spacing
- 15 cm
- In pots
- Grows well in containers
- Feeding
- A general feed before sowing or planting
- Harvest
- About 100 days from sowing
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 3–9
- Difficulty
- Easy
Step by step
- Late April – late May · 2 weeks after the last spring frost
Sow Seeds Outdoors
Sow thinly in drills where they are to grow.
- 7–14 days after “Sow Seeds Indoors” · Early May – mid May
Check Germination
Seedlings should appear in 7–14 days. If sown outdoors, thin to 15 cm apart when big enough to handle.
- 86–107 days after “Check Germination” · Late July – late August
Start Harvesting
When the pods are dry and papery, pull whole plants and hang them somewhere airy to finish drying, then shell.
- 30–60 days after “Start Harvesting” · Late August – late September
Finish and Clear
Store the dried beans in jars once they are rock hard.
