Empress Bean
All-Time Favorite
- Best Seller
- Organic
- Our best fresh-eating snap bean
- Bush habit
- 5-6" stringless pods
- Heavy yields
- Snap bean
- 55 days
- ±1,500 seeds/lb
Item Details
Our very best snap bean for fresh eating, freezing, or processing, the Empress bean offers incredible flavor. The vigorous plants produce heavy yields of large, straight, green, 5-6” stringless pods. Plant in succession for fresh beans throughout the season. Introduced by Gurney’s in 1979 as Experimental Bean 121 and later renamed Empress. Bush habit, snap, 55 days. ±1,500 seeds/lb.
Learn to Grow Empress Bean
Direct Seed: 2" Apart
Seed Depth: 1"
Rows Apart: 36-48"
Light: Full Sun
Sow seeds outdoors after danger of frost has passed and soil and air temperatures have warmed. Harvest frequently for increased yields.
Ratings & Reviews
3 reviews
Easy and prolific
by Pam
These bush beans are very easy to grow and produce a lot of beans. This is my second year growing them.
Staple for any garden
by Jason (North Florida)
Nearly 100% germination with wet paper towel in a plastic bag. Leaves get hammered in the 90+ degree Florida sun, however they are solid producers from a raised bed watered twice weekly.
Empress bean
by Freeman Godwin
grows awesome and produces extremely well here in SE NC. Recommend it to anyone!