Bean Plant Growth
If you are planning a garden, knowing the full cycle of the bean plant growth can enable you to maximize it’s growing season and increase the amount of crop you get. Beans, snap peas and soy beans are a healthy addition to a persons daily dietary needs. High in protein, the bean is one of the base ingredients in a vegetarian’s diet, as well as an excellent side dish for those with a preference for meat.
When growing beans the beginning growth stages are important and you will need to only use good, healthy seeds for planting in your garden. Choosing a high quality seed will help to ensure a better chance of the plant taking root and growing to yield a larger amount of healthier vegetables. While these seeds may be slightly more expensive, the overall increase of bean plant growth is worth the investment, especially if you intend on having a larger garden.
To maximize bean plant growth, planting should be done when the temperature drops no lower than 61 degrees F or 16 degrees C. Temperatures below these levels will endanger the growth for the plant and in fact may even cause it to die.
Germination can take several weeks to be accomplished and can range anywhere from three days to an entire month, however, most bean plants begin to break ground around two weeks after planting. A seedling is a very young plant that has just begun to break the surface of the soil. This phase of the bean plant growth cycle is vital, as a healthy seedling will mature into a robust plant. When seedlings get dehydrated or suffer from over watering in this early stage it will effect the amount of harvested beans during the plants full growth development.
After planting, it will take approximately fifty days from the point of the seedling stage cycle for the plant to begin producing pods that are ready to harvest. For most gardeners, the full cycle of bean growth can only be accomplish once per season. Planting of beans should occur no earlier than March to ensure that your plants have had adequate time to grow during the season before fall frosts strike. Frost can seriously harm bean plant growth, and care should be taken to avoid this. Greenhouses are sometimes used in colder climates for help in ensuring the growing stages of the bean plant are successful.
The bean plant is an annual plant, which means that it can renew itself for at least three growing seasons. Seeds should be placed about two inches apart during planting a garden and when the plants have started growing, it is recommended to remove any weaker plants, so each plant has about 4 inches of space on each side. The soil should be fully cultivated to help prevent the garden from being overtaken by weeds.
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