BEAN SERENGETI SEED

BEAN SERENGETI

Description
Serengeti Bean Seeds (French Filet Type) 1187. A strong, upright growing fancy French filet bean featuring 14 cm (5.5″) long, straight smooth featured medium green pods. Robust plants easily carry high yields of these beautiful tasting tender pods. Serengeti also boasts great disease resistance!

How to Grow
4-5 seed/gram. Beans tolerate a wide range of soil types. Their best growth is in light, organic, well drained soil with a pH of about 6.5. Beans have a distinct dislike for cold, wet soils, so sow seed only after the soil has warmed to at least 16 C (60 F). Sow 2.5 cm (1″) deep and 8 cm (3″) apart in rows spaced 45 to 70 cm (18 to 28″) apart. To ensure a continuous harvest, sow bush-type varieties every 10 days until mid-July. Keep beans evenly watered, particularly when the plants are in flower and when production of the pods start. Avoid the use of high nitrogen fertilizer. Nitrogen promotes excessive foliage. Avoid disturbing beans when leaves are damp to reduce the incidence of disease.

LIFECYCLE
Annual

PROPAGATION
Sow Direct

DAYS TO EMERGENCE
5-10 days

LIGHT
Full Sun

GROWTH HABIT
Bushy

FROST TOLERANCE
Protect from Frost

DAYS TO HARVEST
55 days

DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY
Easy