Pioneer

Pioneer is an old favourite flat heirloom bean from Australia. It is high yielding with a great flavour and is the industry standard for flat beans. It is reliable and resistant to most garden pests that attack other beans. It produces light green stringless pods that are a favourite for home gardeners.

Keep harvesting the beans regularly for extended growing. They don’t need a trellis but may need a small stake to hold the plant up when heavy with beans.

Beans do much better when they are directly sown.  Bush beans are determinate, meaning they grow to about a meter tall,  blossom, turn out a single harvest of beans and then die. If you want a large crop to be ready almost all at once for preserving or freezing, sow all of the seeds at the same time. If you want a higher, continuous yield throughout the season, succession plant at an interval 10 to 20 days.

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