Among the easiest garden vegetables to grow, green beans—also known as string or snap beans—usually mature 50 to 70 days after you sow the seeds outdoors. Therefore, you can grow green bean plants ...

Perhaps the biggest challenge in growing beans is deciding which ones to plant! Many people love to grow green beans (also called snap beans, and they come in a variety of colors besides green) to be ...

I've always wondered, it is leg-yoom or leg-oom? (The dictionary says le-gyüm, whatever that means.) Regardless, legumes are an extremely versatile vegetable that are packed with protein, fiber, ...

In season now: Labor Day typically marks the end of the summer, but the market still screams summertime with a little pop of fall. Stock pantries with apples, basil, bell peppers, beets, carrots, ...

Because beans like warm, sunny weather you still have plenty of time to hunt around and find some interesting new varieties. All beans like warm weather and full sun. Bush beans are shorter and better ...

A. Pole beans are so called because the vine that the beans grow on are allowed to climb up a pole, making it easier for home gardeners to pluck the grown beans. Such vines also keep producing the ...

When Dee Trowbridge of Bradenton asked whether pole beans have a season and where she might find them, I thought the answer would be simple. Pole beans are so called because their vines twirl around ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Joan Hinkemeyer is as crazy about green beans as some gardeners are for homegrown tomatoes. The Denver gardener says nothing compares to the taste of a ...

Snap beans, also called “green beans” or “string beans” (although most modern varieties do not have strings) are harvested when the pods contain immature seeds, and the pods are still succulent. Types ...