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 ...

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 ...

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 freshly picked green bean. “They’re better than ...

Green beans were one of our earliest cultivated plants, tracing their beginnings to Central and South America where they were an original member of the “Three-Sisters,” a companion planting of the ...

Beloved throughout Appalachia, these hearty legumes are always worth the fuss. Before I was old enough to ride a bike, my grandparents taught me how to string and break bushels of beans from their ...

9 a.m. Saturday: Giovanna Luca of Uncle Dom's Italian Market, working with cherry tomatoes. Morningside Farmers Market, Atlanta. www.morningsidemarket.com. 10 a.m ...

Dear Helen: The green and purple bush beans I grew in containers produced well, but the scarlet runner beans dropped most of their flowers. How can I prevent this next year? The plants were adequately ...

For many years I’ve been planting Romano Pole Beans and always had high yields. This year I planted the beans in mid-May and still no beans. A few flowers appeared and then dried up. I trained them on ...