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Easy growing guide of 'Green Beans' in container in USA

Green bean plants are short in size but can give you multiple harvesting in the following durations. These are easy to grow and easy to cook, some people consume them raw, and healthy for human consumption even daily. 

But are you curious about growing them in containers at home without buying from supermarkets and even in very low-cost growing? Well, it's always best even for working people because these plants need natural resources to grow once you set their growth. 

Let's understand how to grow green beans in containers or gardens at the beginner level. 

Growing green beans in containers

For homies, and even office people, it is not a headache to grow green beans with less effort. 

But before letting you know the process of growing, I want you to at least understand the basic growing conditions of green beans. 

growing green beans in USA

Season of growing and green beans

Green bean seeds don't like cool soil while sowing. If you are considering just sowing them in frost, even daytime temperature is good, you can't have good seed germination for green beans. 

The best sowing time for green beans is warm soil temperature from the third week of the spring to the end of the season. 

In the fall, it doesn't give you the best results and easy harvesting because of a shortage of adjustment with the temperature drop. 

Green beans hardly take 50 days for the first harvesting and continue to produce beans for the next couple of harvesting. 

Growing conditions of green beans

  • Soil type- Rich soil with drainage
  • Sunlight- 5 to 8 hours a day
  • Shade- 1 to 2 hours of shade
  • Climate conditions- Warm climate
  • Irrigation- Twice a week
  • Temperature- Above 65F and below 85F

Requirements to grow green beans

Choosing a container

We generally need a wide container to grow green beans directly without using nursery cups.

For four green bean plants, you need a 25x25 square inches container that should have a depth of 8 inches for better absorption and drainage. You can consider a rounded container but for that, you need 25 inches wide diameter. 

Plastic containers are good for green beans cultivation but if you don't have that, wooden ones are good otherwise you can grow them in an open garden easily. Don't ignore the drainage holes in the container otherwise soil may get compacted for a longer run. Open a few drainage holes at the bottom of the container and keep it in open air. 

Tools required

  • Small planter tool 
  • Harvesting Knife
  • Spraying bottle

Materials required

  • Garden soil 
  • Compost
  • Sand
  • Green beans seeds

Guide to growing green beans 

Considering you are willing to germinate seeds first and then transplantation in bigger pots, the following method is helpful otherwise you can skip the transplantation term and follow the same- 

Step 1- Prepare soil mixture for seed germination

Take 2:2:1 of garden soil, compost, and sand in a container to prepare a good potting soil for green beans seeds germination. Mix it well and maintain some moisture in it by spraying water. Fill it in the nursery cups and check the moisture again.

Step 2- Sowing and seed germination

Open the seed packets of green beans and sow one seed in each nursery cup. Cover it with the same soil mixture half an inch under the soil. Keep the nursery cups in sunlight so that bean seeds can germinate without hesitation and restriction. 

Seeds will start germination within 10 days but don't transplant them suddenly. Let them grow for at least a week more in the same cups.

Step 3- Transplantation of green beans plants

After a week more from germination when plants will become 4 to 5 inches tall, you can transplant them in bigger pots. For that, prepare a soil mixture in the bigger container in a ratio of 2:1:1 of garden soil, compost, and sand. Mix it properly and spray a little water on it to keep the moisture. 

Carefully remove the cup plants and plant them in the bigger containers one by one without breaking them. Cover them with the soil up to the stem vertex level. 

Step 4- Further care of green beans

Keep the irrigation regular at twice a week if the temperature is moderate. If heat is increasing then you can increase the irrigation timings according to soil moisture percentage. 

Remove the common weeds from your containers to keep the plants healthy. There is no need for fertilization during the mid-growth. Keep the plants in direct sunlight and avoid full shade at that particular time. 

Step 5- Flowering and green beans

If your plants grow in close to ideal growing conditions, then they'll start flowering within 30 to 35 days of sowing seeds. These flowers don't grow big but in bunches. So from here, they'll take only 12 to 15 days to become ready for the first harvesting. 

Step 6- First harvesting of beans

Finally, after 45 to 50 days, your green bean plants will give you average-sized green beans on the plants. These fresh beans grow 4 to 6 inches on average but sometimes can grow larger than that. 

Use a harvesting Knife to cut them at the twig and harvest the ready beans. Don't be too late otherwise matured beans are not easy to consume raw. 

Step 7- Further harvesting of green beans

Let your plants grow in the same manner further without fertilization but with regular irrigation and weeding. 

From here, you can harvest the green beans a couple more time till the plant don't feel stress and hesitation while producing the beans. 

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