Purple King

Variety

Purple King

Approved Data

created by Peter at 11.10.2021

Seed packet

Features

Color

yellow

blue

Cultivation Break

3 Years

Season Overview

Propagating

Planting

Harvest

J

F

M

A

M

J

A

S

O

N

D

Description

Violet-blue, delicious, early ripening variety. Grows to a height of about 50 cm/19.7 in. Vigorous and high yielding. Pods are round, fleshy, tender, stringless, about 12-16 cm/4.7-6.3 in long. Kernels creamy-yellowish. Pods turn green during cooking. Pods must not be eaten raw! Sowing April to July from soil temperature of about 10°C/50°F when danger of frost is finally over. Bush beans thrive best in sandy loam or simply in a humus-rich soil. If possible, the soil should not dry out, as there could be a lack of oxygen under the crust in the soil, which the bush beans do not like. However, waterlogging should be avoided. They are heat-loving and do not tolerate frost. However, at temperatures above 30°C/86°F they bear less, because there the florets or pods could fall off. As a mixed culture, lettuce, radish, savory and endive are well suited, while rather unfavorable are: Onions, garlic, tomatoes, carrots, leeks, peas, fennel. Even if all this sounds like a lot, the bush beans are rather uncomplicated and grateful culture. And their own beans taste the best!

Non hybrid

Not frost resistant

Growing tips

Germination after 8-15 days at 15-20°C/59-68°F. Can be sown from 10°C/50°F. Less sensitive to cold than other varieties.

Details

Light requirement

Sunny

Water requirement

Wet

Soil

Medium (loamy)

Nutrient requirement

Low

Plant distance

10 cm

Row spacing

50 cm

Seeding depth

3 cm

Companion Plants

Abyssinian cabbage / Ethiopian mustard

Asparagus

Aubergine / Eggplant

Beetroot

Black salsify

Blackberry / Brambles

Borage

Broccoli

Broccoli raab / Stem cabbage / Cima di rapa

Brussels sprouts

Cabbage (Cabbage)

Cabbage (Pointed cabbage)

Cabbage (red cabbage)

Cabbage (Savoy cabbage)

Calliopsis / Tickseed

Caraway / Meridian fennel / Persian cumin

Carrots

Cauliflower

Celery (Celeriac / Celery root)

Celery (Celery)

Celery (Leaf celery / Chinese celery)

Celtuce / Stem lettuce

Chard

Chili

Chinese kale - Kai-lan / Chinese broccoli

Collard greens (Kale)

Collard greens (Tuscan kale / Dinosaur kale / Palm tree kale)

Common marigold

Coneflower (Echinacea)

Corn / Maize

Courgette / Zucchini

Cucumber (Caigua)

Cucumber / Gherkin

Currant

Dill

Garden squash - Patisson / UFO squash

Gooseberry

Hair cucumbers / snake gourds

Kohlrabi / German turnip / Turnip cabbage

Lettuce (Common chicory)

Lettuce (Endive / Escarole / Erisée)

Lettuce (Lamb's lettuce)

Lettuce (Lettuce)

Lettuce (Oriental greens / Brown mustard)

Lettuce (Puntarelle / Cicoria di catalogna / Cicoria asparago)

Lettuce (Radicchio / Italian chicory)

Lettuce (Sugar loaf)

Melon (Sugar melon)

Melon (Watermelon)

Mizuna / Japanese mustard greens

Napa cabbage / Chinese cabbage

Nasturtium

Nightshades (Other)

Oregano

Ornamental pumpkin

Pak Choi

Pepper / Paprika

Physalis

Pumpkin / Squash

Radish

Radishes

Rapini / Broccoli rabe

Raspberry

Rhubarb

Rudbeckia (Coneflower / Black-eyed-susans)

Rutabaga / Swedish turnip

Sage

Savory

Spinach (Summer)

Spinach (Winter)

Sponge gourd / Egyptian cucumber / Vietnamese luffa

Strawberry

Tagetes / Marigolds

Tomato (Bush tomato)

Tomato (Cocktail bush tomato)

Tomato (Stake tomato)

Turnip

Turnip greens - Choy Sum / Chinese flowering cabbage

Turnip greens - Mizuna

Turnip greens - Tatsoi

Turnip-rooted chervil

Turnips - Oilseed turnips

Turnips - Wild turnips

Vegetable cabbage - Forage cabbage

Vegetable cabbage - wild cabbage / ancient cabbage

Yalta tomatoes

Antagonistic Plants

Diseases

Bacterial canker

Root Rot

Fusarium

Bean Rust

Bean Mosaic Virus

Common Bacterial Blight (Bean Blight)

Pests

Broad Bean weevil

Black bean aphid

Bean Seed Fly

Aphids

Land snails

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