Stardew Valley: How to Grow Green Beans + Green Bean Uses

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Learn how to grow green beans in this popular farming sim game

Written by Hannah Dillon

Last Updated: September 16, 2024 Fact Checked

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In Stardew Valley, one of the many crops you can grow is Green Beans. But if you've gone looking for Green Bean seeds, you might be confused as to why you're coming up empty handed. Green Beans are grown from something called a Bean Starter, which functions like a seed but grows beans throughout the whole season. In this article we'll go over exactly how to grow Green Beans, how to complete the Green Bean Crop Order, and detail what else you can use Green Beans for in Stardew Valley.

Getting Green Beans in Stardew Valley

Green Beans are obtained by planting Bean Starters during Spring. Bean Starters can be purchased from the General Store, JojaMart, the Traveling Cart, and the Night Market. Bean Starters produce Green Beans throughout the whole season, so you can harvest between 6 to 8 beans per starter over the entirety of Spring.

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How to Grow Green Beans

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   Obtain a Bean Starter. Green Beans grow from Bean Starters. Bean Starters can be purchased a few places:

   • Pierre's General Store (60 gold)
   • JojaMart (75 gold)
   • Traveling Cart (100 to 1,000 gold)
   • Night Market (60 gold)
     • Bean Starters can also be made in the Seed Maker, found in Skull Cavern treasure rooms, or received when opening a Mystery Box or Golden Mystery Box.
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   Plant your Bean Starters. Bean Starters can be planted in Spring, or you can plant them in a Greenhouse any time during the year. Note that you cannot walk through Bean Starters once they have been planted, unlike most other crops in Stardew Valley.

   • As such, make sure you have at least one adjacent tile to the Bean Starter for harvesting.
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   Wait for your beans to grow. After 10 in-game days, your Bean Starters can be harvested. Each Bean Starter will produce 1 Green Bean. After harvesting, another Green Bean will be ready to harvest after 3 days.
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   Harvest your beans. If you don't use any fertilizer and don't have the Agriculturist profession (which is a level 10 Farming profession you can pick if you selected Tiller at level 5) you can get 6 Green Beans per Bean Starter if you plant your Bean Starters at the beginning of the season.

   • If you use fertilizer, you can get 7 to 8 Green Beans per Bean Starter, depending on the type of fertilizer used: Speed-Gro and Deluxe Speed-Gro will yield 7 beans per starter, and Hyper Speed-Gro will yield 8.
   • If you have the Agriculturist profession and use no fertilizer, each Bean Starter will yield 7 beans each in one season.
   • If you use fertilizer and have the Agriculturist profession, Speed-Gro will still yield 7 beans per starter and Hyper Speed-Gro will still yield 8 beans per starter, but Deluxe Speed-Gro will increase from 7 beans per starter to 8 beans per starter.
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Section 2 of 3:

Green Bean Special Order

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   The Crop Order quest may ask for Green Beans during Spring. After unlocking the Special Order board outside of the Mayor's house, a Crop Order quest for Green Beans may appear in Spring. This Special Order requires you to ship 100 Green Beans during the season of Spring. You must complete the order while the quest is active, and the maximum amount of time to complete the quest is 28 days.
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   The number of Bean Starters to plant depends on a few factors. If you start the Crop Order Special Order on the first day of Spring, you will need to plant the following amount of Bean Starters (minimum) to ship 100 Green Beans before Spring is over:

   • No Agriculturist
     • No fertilizer or Agriculturist: 17 Bean Starters
     • Speed-Gro or Deluxe Speed-Gro fertilizer and no Agriculturist: 15 Bean Starters
     • Hyper Speed-Gro fertilizer and no Agriculturist: 13 Bean Starters
   • Agriculturist
     • Agriculturist with no fertilizer or Speed-Gro fertilizer: 15 Bean Starters
     • Agriculturist with Deluxe Speed-Gro or Hyper Speed-Gro fertilizer: 13 Bean Starters
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   Starting the quest after the first of the season can make planning tricky. Fertilizer and the Agriculturist profession can speed up how long your Bean Starters take to mature, but the regrowth time is always 3 days. To calculate how many Bean Starters you'll need to plant if you don't start growing beans on the first of Spring, determine how many harvests you'll get with these numbers:

   • No fertilizer or Agriculturist: 10 days to reach maturity
   • Agriculturist with no fertilizer: 8 days to reach maturity
   • Speed-Gro fertilizer and no Agriculturist: 8 days to reach maturity
   • Speed-Gro fertilizer and Agriculturist: 7 days to reach maturity
   • Deluxe Speed-Gro fertilizer and no Agriculturist: 7 days to reach maturity
   • Deluxe Speed-Gro fertilizer and Agriculturist: 6 days to reach maturity
   • Hyper Speed-Gro fertilizer and no Agriculturist: 6 days to reach maturity
   • Hyper Speed-Gro fertilizer and Agriculturist: 6 days to reach maturity
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Section 3 of 3:

Other Green Bean Uses

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   Bundles Green Beans are used in two Community Center bundles:

   • 1 Green Bean is required for the Spring Crops Bundle
   • 5 Green Beans of gold quality are a possible option for the remixed Quality Crops bundle
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   Recipes Green Beans are used in one recipe, Bean Hotpot. The only ingredient for Bean Hotpot is 2 Green Beans.

   • Bean Hotpot restores 125 health, 56 energy, and gives the Max Energy and Magnetism buffs for 7 minutes.
     • You can obtain the Bean Hotpot recipe in the mail from Clint after reaching 7 hearts with him.
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   Help Wanted Quests During Spring, the Help Wanted board may randomly have a request for one Green Bean. Completing this quest will earn you 120 gold and 150 friendship points with the quest poster.
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   Gifting All villagers like Green Beans except for Abigail, Haley, Jas, Sam, and Vincent. In a pinch, Green Beans will work as a gift for any villager who likes them, but they are better used for other things.
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   Tailoring 1 Green Bean can be used with Cloth to make the Shirt And Belt top in the Sewing Machine. Green Beans can also be used as green dye in the Sewing Machine or the dye pots.
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