warm season crop tender to frost

Pole bean

Timing everywhere hangs on one number: the local last spring frost. Enter your town for exact dates where you garden.

Days to maturity
60–70 d
Frost
tender
Soil temp
≥ 16 °C

How pole bean timing shifts by place

Southern-hemisphere places mirror the calendar — their season straddles the new year. Equatorial highlands have no frost at all, so the limiting factor becomes rainfall, not cold. See pole bean dates for your place →