Since my soil can warm slowly due to being on the north side of my house, I have had to replant bean seeds several times to fill in misfires.

A month ago or so, I tried getting a few bean seeds just barely started using the baggie method. Those germinated and I planted them in cells when the root was just 1/4" to 1/2" long. They sprouted and grew normally until I forgot and left them out in a freeze.

So I tried it on my actual seeds. I bagged them on Sunday 5/26 and planted them in the garden Wednesday 5/29. The soil was too cold for germination, so I wanted to see if the germinated seeds would grow anyway.

Here are some of the seeds in paper towel roll I put in the baggie and blew in air and sealed.

Here is a closeup of two of the seeds. The top one is more developed than I wanted. The lower seed is just what I wanted - just 1/4" to 1/2" of root exposed. My thinking was that I would be less likely to damage that small root - which is why most avoid transplanting beans.

Here are the bean sprouts lined up next to each string on my towers. Out of 96 total positions, only 8 are missing. Of those 8 missing, 4 are 4 of the 8 Rattlesnake beans. Rattlesnakes are always my slowest sprouters, so some or all of those still may come up. I'll plant seeds to fill in whatever has not sprouted in another 3-4 days. I'm pretty sure that I could not have planted in-ground until at least June 1 this year and I might have no sprouts yet.