Green bean · Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam
When to plant green beans in Ho Chi Minh City
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Ho Chi Minh City, on your chosen risk.
First autumn frost
no autumn frost
The far end of the outdoor season.
The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.
Step by step in Ho Chi Minh City
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.
Green beans through the year
Against the frost risk in Ho Chi Minh City
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 Ho Chi Minh City.
Also in Ho Chi Minh City
Other vegetables to time
Growing green beans in Ho Chi Minh City
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.