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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Enjoy your harvest sooner.

Green beans have always been one of the most loved of all garden-fresh vegetables. Out-of-season and shipped in from afar, the quality never quite measures up. To keep them coming fresh until fall, it ...

Beans are an excellent plant for novice gardeners to cultivate because they are simple to sow, tend, and harvest. The green bean plant, or Phaseolus vulgaris, is also known as the common bean plant.

As spring arrives, you don't have to wait to get your garden started. Consider planting these five fruits and vegetables in ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

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 ...