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Green bean · Ituzaingó, Corrientes, Argentina

When to plant green beans in Ituzaingó

Main outdoor window

12-26 Aug

The window this page is built around.

Timed from last spring frost

5 August

In Ituzaingó, on your chosen risk.

Ready to pick

1-11 Oct

If you plant at the start of the window.

The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.

Step by step in Ituzaingó

Each window is a range, not a single day. Earlier in the range buys you a longer season; later in it buys you a safer one.

Sow direct

12-26 Aug

One week after your last frost.

Harvest

1-11 Oct

Sow in succession. A single sowing gives you a single glut. Sow a short row every 14 days through the window above and you get a steady supply instead.
Frost tolerance
Tender
Damaged below
0°C (32°F)
Days to maturity
50–60
Min soil temp
15°C (59°F)
Spacing
15 cm
Sowing depth
30 mm (1.2 in)
Sun
Full

Green beans through the year

Against the frost risk in Ituzaingó

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Why these dates

Sow a short row every two weeks from one week after last frost until ten weeks before first frost. Beans crop heavily for a fortnight then decline, so succession matters more than quantity.

Beans are killed by the lightest frost at any stage. They also germinate poorly below 15C, so patience in spring pays.

Seed packets and extension guides express timing as weeks either side of the last spring frost, because that is the only reference point that travels. Green beans are timed for direct sowing 1 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Ituzaingó.

The median frost-free season here is 319 days, against 50 to 60 days to maturity for this crop counted from sowing. That margin is what decides whether a late sowing is worth attempting.

See every crop timed for Ituzaingó →

Growing green beans in Ituzaingó

When should I plant green beans in Ituzaingó?

Aim for 12-26 Aug in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 30 Aug - 13 Sep - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.

When will green beans be ready to harvest in Ituzaingó?

Expect to start picking around 1-11 Oct, based on 50 to 60 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.

How much frost will green beans tolerate?

Beans are killed by the lightest frost at any stage. They also germinate poorly below 15C, so patience in spring pays.