Best time to plant green beans in Florida

baby green bush beans
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September is the perfect time to plant all kinds of beans in Florida and enjoy these nutritional crops throughout the cool season. As with all the food plants, it's crucial to choose the best varieties, the ones that are tested to perform well in Florida's extreme conditions.

I believe it's quite safe to rely on University of Florida recommendations.

Recommended snap bush beans:

• Bush Baby
  
• Bush Blue Lake
  
• Cherokee Wax
• Contender
• Harvester
• Provider
• Roma
• Tendercrop

Recommended shell bush beans:

• Horticultural
• Pinto
• Red Kidney

Recommended bush beans, planted for color, as decorative plants:

• Burgundy
• Purple Teepee

Recommended pole beans:

• Blue Lake
• Dade
• Kentucky Wonder 191
• McCaslan

Recommended lima beans:

• pole  Florida Butter
• Dixie Butterpea
• Fordhook 242
• Henderson
• Jackson Wonder
• pole Sieva

Pole and lima beans need support. Provide them with trellis, poles or grow them with corn.


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