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How to grow French Bean (Dwarf Tendergreen)
Phaseolus vulgaris
🥕 Vegetable
🌱 Grown each year
Compact bushes of pencil-thin, stringless green beans — no supports needed and great in pots.
At a glance: Sow late April to mid June, harvest from late June.
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 French Bean (Dwarf Tendergreen): 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 60 days from sowing
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 3–9
- Difficulty
- Easy
Step by step
- Late April – mid June · 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.
- 46–67 days after “Check Germination” · Late June – mid July
Start Harvesting
Pick when pods are about 10 cm long and snap crisply.
- 14–28 days after “Start Harvesting” · Early July – mid July
Sow Another Batch (optional)
Sow another batch every 4 weeks until midsummer.
- 40–70 days after “Sow Another Batch” · Mid August – mid September
Finish and Clear
Clear the remains to the compost heap once cropping ends.
