When to plant climbing bean in Alice Springs
- Sow in the ground: late Feb to late FebAlice Springs area, hot desert
- Sow in the ground: mid Sep to late SepAlice Springs area, hot desert
Worked out from 30 years of climate records for Alice Springs. Microclimates vary: frost hollows and hills run later.
A productive summer legume that crops for months up a trellis, giving more beans per square metre than bush beans. Sow seed directly once the soil is warm; it rots in cold, wet soil. Pick pods young every couple of days to keep the vines producing.