Best time to plant french bean in Charters Towers
Phaseolus vulgaris
Also called green bean, common bean, bush bean, climbing bean
Sow french bean in Charters Towers in Feb to Apr, Sep to Oct.
A legume from the Americas, the common bean has many cultivars, sold as low bush plants or long climbing vines. Green pods are picked young and usually cooked. Dried beans must be soaked and boiled hard for 30 minutes, since raw ones contain a toxin. The leaves occasionally serve as a vegetable.
When to sow in Charters Towers
Charters Towers, QLD is in the tropical zone. The zone also plants in May to Aug, but Charters Towers's frost dates make those months risky for a frost-tender crop.
Not yet checked against a local guide.
Your local conditions can shift any months shown here, so treat them as a guide.
Frost in Charters Towers
Frost usually arrives in Charters Towers around early July and finishes by late July. In about 1 year in 10 it comes as early as mid June or as late as late August, so frost-tender crops are planned around those dates.
From its Bureau of Meteorology station, 1991 to 2020, counting a night at 2°C or lower as a frost. Frost hollows and hillsides can shift these dates by weeks, so ask the growers at your garden too.
On a shared plot: suits a plot
Finishes in a season and stays within its space, so it suits most plots.
Growing details
- How to start
- Sow directly in the bed
- Sowing depth
- 2.5cm
- Plant spacing
- 10cm
- Row spacing
- 80cm
- Height
- 250cm
- Germination
- About 10 days
- Time to harvest
- 60 days
- Frost
- Frost tender
- Sun
- Part sun
- Life cycle
- annual
These are typical figures, and varieties differ. Your seed packet takes priority.