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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...