I've been getting a lot of questions lately on whether it's too late to plant certain crops this summer, specifically beans.

The good news is depending on where you live and when you're listening to this episode, it is not too late to plant beans.

Most of us can still get a good crop of bush beans at the very least, but some of us still

have time to even plant pole beans.

To know whether this is an option for you, the first thing you need to do is know your

average first frost date in the fall.

You can look that up online, and the next thing you need to do is to consider the days to maturity on a seed packet.

So if you're looking at bush beans, it may be like 55 to 60 days, maturity to get those beans

from planting the seed to being ready to harvest. I would personally add two or three weeks

to that to account both for the less amount of daylight,

but more so just to be able to give you a chance to harvest before that frost hits, understanding

that's still average, and then count backwards from that date to see the absolute latest time

you could plant those bush beans in your garden to be able to get the

harvest by your average first frostate. This is the case for zucchini, cucumbers, any of your

quicker growing plants that you could plant as a late planting in the summer. I personally love

planting zucchini this way for sure. But let's go back

to beans. Pole beans are a little bit different because they take longer to mature and they don't

produce all at once like bush beans do. They, once they start producing, they'll just continue to

produce until usually stopped by cold weather or frost.

The process is the same. You're going to still be counting backward.

I would add a little bit more time for harvest just because those pole beans are going to harvest for a little bit longer.

But you still should have time.

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