Tips for Growing Green Beans in Fall | Gardener's Path

27.02.2024 - 16:01 / gardenerspath.com / Rose Kennedy

Tips for Growing Green Beans in Fall

When I plan carefully, I can harvest fresh green beans, Phaseolus vulgaris, from the garden in autumn.

I often have these homegrown vegetables for casseroles or three-bean salads I take to football tailgates, and sometimes for the potlucks that a particular group of my friends likes to hold on the weekends near Halloween.

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I live primarily in East Tennessee, though, which is in USDA Hardiness Zone 7b, where the first annual frost isn’t anticipated until October 22. With judicious use of row covers and by planting in full-sun areas, I can usually harvest green beans right up until that time.

If you garden in similar weather, or live in a somewhat cooler growing zone but are willing to take extra measures to protect your plants, you can also grow green beans in the fall.

In this guide, I’ll give tips for planting and caring for a fall crop of these legumes that produce tender, slender pods.

There are a few hacks that will help, but for the most part, even a beginner vegetable gardener can succeed.

Here’s the info I’ll be sharing:

Growing your own green beans is a low-risk, low-cost way to join the legions of gardeners who extend their summer vegetable harvest into early autumn.

The bush varieties in particular grow quickly, and all types of P. vulgarisare likely toproduce a hefty crop – even for beginner gardeners.

If you’ve already planted these veggies this year, you probably have some seeds left over, and succession planting for an autumn harvest is a great way to use them.

And if you just never got around to planting them in