Description
Bring bright color and reliable harvests to your garden with 'Gold Rush' Snap Bean Seeds, a premium bush variety known for its slender, golden-yellow pods. These tender, stringless beans are full of flavor and perfect for fresh eating, freezing, or preserving. With vigorous growth and high yields, this variety produces an abundant crop in just 54 days, making it a favorite among home gardeners.
Compact and easy to grow, 'Gold Rush' Snap Bean Seeds thrive in garden beds and containers alike. Resistant to common bean mosaic virus, NY15, and curly top virus, the sturdy plants hold their quality and texture longer than many other wax beans. Regular harvesting encourages continued production, ensuring a consistent supply of crisp, flavorful pods throughout the growing season.
This packet sows up to 20 feet. 60 seeds.
Variety Info:
Botanical Name: Phaseolus vulgaris
Days to Maturity: 54 days
Family: Fabaceae
Native: Mexico and South America
Hardiness: Frost-sensitive annual
Plant Dimensions: 16″–20″ tall, wide
Variety Information: Slender, 5 ½”–6″ yellow pods borne in clusters around main stem. 'Gold Rush' is regarded as one of the best wax beans available. It holds its quality and texture in the garden longer than other beans and freezes well. The strong plants bear large crops of white-seeded pods that are easy to harvest. Resistant to bean common mosaic virus, NY15, and curly top virus.
Type: Snap bean
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.
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.
