How to Grow a Romano Bush Bean

Romano bush beans are long, flat beans. The romano bean, a type of snap bean, originates from Italy and is an annual grown from seed that you can buy from garden stores or online retailers. Because the romano bean is a bush rather than a climbing bean, it stands erect on its own without supporting canes or trellis. Once the beans are ripe, you can chop off the ends and eat them boiled or steamed, whole or sliced. You can eat them hot as a side dish, allow them to cool and add them to a salad, or add them to stews or other dishes.

Romano bean seeds
Seed tray
Potting compost
Garden compost
Spade
Trowel

Instructions

- 1
  Sow the seeds indoors in early spring in a seed tray filled with potting compost. Cover the seeds with a 1-inch layer of compost. Keep the compost moist but not soaked.
- 2
  Thin out the beans when the shoots have grown to about 1 inch, removing the weakest-looking seedlings.
- 3
  Add a 3-inch layer of well-rotted compost to the top of the soil where the bean will grow. Dig down to a depth of 9 inches, mixing the compost in well with the soil.
- 4
  Remove the bean seedlings from the seed tray after the last frosts have passed. Avoid damaging the young roots. Use a trowel to dig holes deep enough to take the whole root, spacing the seedlings about 12 inches apart in rows 2 feet apart.
- 5
  Place the seedlings in the holes and backfill with compost, firming it down. Water thoroughly. Keep the soil around the beans moist as they grow.

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