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 ...

Did you grow Blue Lake pole beans this summer? Did you end up with stringy, flat beans instead of nice tender, plump ones? You aren’t alone. And no one really knows why. The Blue Lake bean has been a ...

Snaps, commonly called green beans or string beans are popular in the home garden because they are easy to grow, have a relative short time to harvest, they are prolific, add nitrogen to the soil, and ...

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 ...

The following is an excerpt from Heirloom Vegetable Gardening: A Master Gardener’s Guide to Planting, Seed Saving and Cultural History by William Woys Weaver. This definitive, intriguing and ...

Beans, beans, they’re good for your heart. The more you eat the more you … should consider growing your own. Beans are very easy to grow in the home garden and will yield a high rate of return with ...