Description
Elevate your garden harvest with the 'French Filet' Bush Bean, a gourmet variety prized for its slender, tender pods and delicate flavor. These compact, bushy plants produce pencil-thin, 4-inch beans. They are perfect for quick steaming, sautéing, or adding elegant presentation to your favorite dishes. With harvests ready in just 58 days, this variety brings exceptional taste and texture directly from your garden to table.
Ideal for home gardens and containers alike, 'French Filet' Bush Beans thrive in well-drained soil and full sun. They produce abundant yields of crisp, flavorful pods. Regular picking encourages continued growth, ensuring a steady supply of beans throughout the season. Compact plants grow 12″–16″ tall, making them easy to manage while delivering a refined, high-quality harvest.
This packet sows up to 27 feet. 80 seeds.
Variety Info:
Botanical Name: Phaseolus vulgaris
Days to Maturity: 58 days
Family: Fabaceae
Native: Mexico and South America
Hardiness: Frost-sensitive annual
Plant Dimensions: 12″–16″ tall, 8″–10″ wide, upright busy plants
Variety Information: Slender ¼” diameter, 4″¼ long, green pods with white seeds.
Type: Snap bean
Attributes: Good for Containers
Sowing Info:
When to Sow Outside: RECOMMENDED. 1 to 2 weeks after your average last frost date, and when soil temperature is at least 65°F, ideally 70°–85°F. Successive Sowings: Every 7 to 14 days up to 80 days before your average first fall frost date. NOTE: In very hot summer areas, skip sowing as high heat approaches; temperatures consistently above 90°F will prevent beans from forming.
When to Start Inside: Not recommended; bean seedlings are sensitive to root disturbance.
Days to Emerge: 6–12 days
Seed Depth: 1″
Seed Spacing: 1 seed every 4″
Row Spacing: 24″
Thinning: Not required
Growing Info:
Harvesting: Snap beans are ready to pick when the pod “snaps” or breaks in half cleanly. This is when the seeds have just begun to form and the pods are several inches long (depending on the variety). Hold the stem with one hand, and the pod with the other hand to avoid pulling off branches, which will continue to produce. At season's end, plants are great compost material if they are disease-free.
