Bean Bush – Improved Tendergreens

Description

(Mosaic Tolerant) Provides the delicious quality of original Tendergreen without susceptibility to mosaic. Medium large bush bean plant, erect, and holds up well when loaded with pods. Yields more heavily over longer period, with more slender and darker pods. Pods about 6 inches long, rich green color, and the best of tenderness and rich flavor. Canning, shipping, freezing. Dark speckled seed.

55 days to maturity

6-12 days to sprout

Bush bean seeds per packet: About 175

Bush bean seeds per 1/2 Lb: About 550

Bush bean seeds per Lb: About 1,150

Planting should be delayed until all danger of frost is over with a minimum soil temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit at 4 inch depth. Dwarfs are earliest and most hardy. In garden culture, beans are usually planted about 2 inches deep in rows 20 inches apart, and 3 inches apart in the row, in field culture, in drill rows 20 to 30 inches apart to cultivate with tractor. Until blossoming season, frequent but shallow cultivation should be given.

Deep cultivation after the plants show bloom is very apt to ruin the crop. Do not disturb plants when covered with dew. One pound will plant 100 feet of drill, and sixty pounds is sufficient for one acre of dwarf bush types. Allow 50 foot row per person. To afford a regular succession of crops throughout the season, plant every two weeks after the first planting until midsummer.