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
9 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!
Delicious!
by Scott
Best flavor and texture of any bush bean I've ever grown. Produce and grow well in NE Iowa.
Yum!
by Sara (IN)
The best! Easy to save, too. Delicious.
A family favorite!
by Jamie
A go to every year! A hit with the whole family, especially the toddlers! Not many left to freeze because they all get eaten!
Great bean that's easy to grow
by Susan
I have a pretty bad track record with most plants I try to grow, but these beans have done great. I'm in the south Georgia area, and sowed my seeds directly in the garden bed and had beans to eat 2 months later. They taste good and continue to produce. I only wish I had planted more seeds.
Needed to Plant More!
by Mindy
This is about the 8th type of green bean we’ve grown and is by far our favorite. We direct-seeded and all but one grew into a healthy plant. This produces easily twice the volume of our other beans and tastes better than them all. Plus no strings for anyone to choke on. We want to save some seeds for next year, but we also just want to eat them all, so I’ll likely be buying more seeds from SSE next year.
Fed us for months and still producing!
by Jean Hee
Fed my family for months. Still producing, even as temperatures have dropped in Northern Illinois.