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Green bean · Brooklyn, New York, United States

When to plant green beans in Brooklyn

Main outdoor window

5-19 Apr

The window this page is built around.

Timed from last spring frost

29 March

In Brooklyn, on your chosen risk.

Ready to pick

25 May - 4 Jun

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 Brooklyn

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

5-19 Apr

One week after your last frost.

Harvest

25 May - 4 Jun

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 Brooklyn

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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 Brooklyn.

The median frost-free season here is 249 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 Brooklyn →

Nearby

Green beans in places close by

New York City 9 km Queens 10 km Manhattan 15 km The Bronx 23 km Philadelphia 129 km

Also in Brooklyn

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Growing green beans in Brooklyn

When should I plant green beans in Brooklyn?

Aim for 5-19 Apr in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 15-29 Apr - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.

When will green beans be ready to harvest in Brooklyn?

Expect to start picking around 25 May - 4 Jun, 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.