Yardlong bean · Kirāri Sulemānnagar, Delhi, India
When to plant yardlong beans in Kirāri Sulemānnagar
Main outdoor window
21 Jan - 11 Feb
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
7 January
In Kirāri Sulemānnagar, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
1 Jul - 31 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 Kirāri Sulemānnagar
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.
Start indoors
17 Dec - 7 Jan
Three weeks before your last frost, under cover or on a windowsill.
Sow direct
21 Jan - 11 Feb
Two weeks after your last frost.
Plant out
21 Jan - 11 Feb
Two weeks after your last frost.
Harvest
1 Jul - 31 Oct
Yardlong beans through the year
Against the frost risk in Kirāri Sulemānnagar
Why these dates
Sow two weeks after the last frost onto warm soil, up a tall support. Pick at about 40cm, before the seeds swell, and pick every second day.
Killed at 0C. Growth stalls below 18C, so in cool summers the plant climbs without ever flowering usefully.
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. Yardlong beans are timed from 3 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 2 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Kirāri Sulemānnagar.
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Growing yardlong beans in Kirāri Sulemānnagar
When should I plant yardlong beans in Kirāri Sulemānnagar?
Aim for 21 Jan - 11 Feb in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 27 Jan - 17 Feb - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will yardlong beans be ready to harvest in Kirāri Sulemānnagar?
Expect to start picking around 1 Jul - 31 Oct, based on 60 to 80 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will yardlong beans tolerate?
Killed at 0C. Growth stalls below 18C, so in cool summers the plant climbs without ever flowering usefully.