Bush Bean Jackson
Bush Bean Jackson is a French bush bean with glossy, dark green stringless pods to 15cm, delicious flavour and copes well with hot and wet conditions. This variety has replaced Lawrence.
Sow: late October to January (cool climate) after risk of frost and sow when a warm period is coming.
Spacing: plants 15cm, rows 30cm (sow 2 seeds to a hole min) soaking seed overnight aides germination if soils are not wet.
The common bean is a highly variable species that has a long history of cultivation. All wild members of the species have a climbing habit, but many cultivars are classified either as bush beans or dwarf beans, or as pole beans or climbing beans, depending on their style of growth.
Germination: Optimal Soil temperature is 24 to 26 C (around 7 days to germination). Can sow once soils reach over 16 degrees (somewhere around late October to November generally in Tasmania).
