Green bean · Panipat, Haryana, India
When to plant green beans in Panipat
Main outdoor window
13-27 Jan
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
6 January
In Panipat, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
4-14 Mar
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 Panipat
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
13-27 Jan
One week after your last frost.
Harvest
4-14 Mar
Green beans through the year
Against the frost risk in Panipat
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 Panipat.
The median frost-free season here is 356 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.
Nearby
Green beans in places close by
Also in Panipat
Other vegetables to time
Growing green beans in Panipat
When should I plant green beans in Panipat?
Aim for 13-27 Jan in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 13-27 Jan - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will green beans be ready to harvest in Panipat?
Expect to start picking around 4-14 Mar, 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.