🥢 Green Beans
A warm-season producer: the more you pick, the more it bears.
What the numbers mean
These are the actual parameters this game runs on. Growth is driven by growing degree days: each day contributes max(0, min(mean temp, 32) − 10), and Green Beans is ready when that total reaches 600. That is why the same seed takes a very different number of days in Dublin and in Guangzhou.
| Base temperature | 10°CBelow this, the plant accumulates no growing degree days at all. |
|---|---|
| Degree days to maturity | 600 °C·dThe heat budget it must accumulate before it is ready to pick. |
| Comfortable range | 16–29°CWhere it grows without stress. |
| Frost damage below | 2°CLeaves start taking frost damage below this low. |
| Killed below | 0°CBelow this it does not come back. |
| Heat stress above | 33°CAbove this the plant slows down and stops setting fruit well. |
| Typical time to harvest | 50–60 days |
| Yield per bed | 22 beans |
Things worth knowing
- Pick often — pods left on the vine tell the plant its job is done and flowering stops.
- Raw green beans contain lectins and saponins; always cook them thoroughly.
Where and when to sow Green Beans
Pick your city to see the months when Green Beans scores well against that city's real climate records: