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 ...

Beans can give, and give, and give right up until the end of the season. It doesn't take much to care for string beans — especially once they're established. In fact, if the plants are healthy, you'll ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. While purchasing seedlings from your local nursery is a good way to get a head start in your vegetable garden, there are some crops that will ...

School's back in session, the days are getting shorter, and fall decor is already tempting us from store shelves. If you don't have Labor Day plans this year, make it a gardening weekend for planting ...

Who doesn't like fresh green beans? Evidently not many dislike this tasty vegetable, as it is the second most popular vegetable grown in the home garden; second only to tomatoes. According to the ...

I hope everyone is surviving this wet weather we have been locked into this summer. Of course, this is the time of year we are usually begging for rain. With all the rain it is hard to think about ...

Time lapse journey of growing a green bean plant in a container from seed to harvest-able pods. It took beanie about 60 days with regularly watering to reach such stage. The green bean bush can be ...

Most home gardeners grow bush or snap beans. A pole bean provides a lot of produce in a small space. They can grow on strings, poles, fences or be guided along the sides of buildings. They can grow as ...

My grandfather grew green beans that had a sticky, hairy texture to our fingers when we picked them. I think of those beans every year I plant green beans. Beans are a really simple crop to grow -- ...

FRESH GREEN beans are always good but not always green, as one can see with this purple podded pole bean. My oldest brother, Doice, used to gag and refuse to eat green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) as a ...

My oldest brother, Doice, used to gag and refuse to eat green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) as a child. I'll be the first to admit, those mushy things out of a can weren't my favorite either. Imagine my ...