When to plant green beans in Zone 10

In Zone 10, the last spring frost usually passes around January 31 and the first fall frost arrives around December 15, leaving about 318 frost-free days. The windows below are computed from those frost dates, with the same math the Dibble app uses.

Nearly frost-free. Grow cool crops in winter; summers are too hot for many vegetables.

Planting windows for green beans in Zone 10

The harvest estimate counts 55 days to maturity, then a picking window of about 21 days. These windows use typical frost dates for Zone 10; Dibble pins them to your exact ZIP code.

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Bean (bush) in a Zone 10 season

Zone 10 gives about 318 frost-free days. Bean (bush) needs roughly 55 days from sowing. That leaves about 263 days of slack, so there is room for a late start or a second planting.

Sowing every 14 days, Zone 10 has room for about 19 plantings.

How to grow green beans

Sow beans directly a week after your last frost when soil is warm. Succession sow every 2 weeks for continuous harvest.

Companion plants

Good neighbors for Bean (bush):

Better kept apart:

Bean (bush) in other zones

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Dates are estimates based on typical frost dates for the zone. Your yard has its own microclimate, so use them as a starting point and adjust as you learn your space.