Beans can be easy to grow, and are useful where space is limited as you can grow bush or climbing variaties, and the climbing variaty will obviously offer more crop for their footprint.
When to sow Beans: May to June
When to harvest Beans: August to October
How to grow beans:
Seeds should be sown around 2 inches deep and spaced around 5 inches apart.
If growing the bush variaties still require some support, however this can come from canes or twigs around 2 foot in height. Climbing variaties will require larger supports of around 6 foot using garden netting to offer the tendrils something to cling to.
When to harvest beans:
The pods can be picked when they are 4 inches long, It is best to pick regularly to ensure the pods do not go hard and start to seed. This will also help development of other pods on the plant. The picking season of the plants will last for several weeks.
A little tip is to water the plant with a liquid fertilizer once the picking has finished, this may produce an additional crop of beans.
Also not that beans fix nitrogen into the soil so when harvesting has completed remove the plant but leave the root system in the ground.
