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 ...

Knowing when to harvest green beans is vital for protecting the plant’s health and guaranteeing a good yield of veggies. In fact, when picking beans at the right time, you can also ensure multiple ...

We just purchased a new seeder for our Tulsa Master Gardener Seed to Supper Farm, and so far, it’s great. It’s a device called a Poly Planter Jr. At our farm we harvest food to donate to area food ...

Home grown green beans are always superior to canned ones. Fall gardening is essentially the opposite of spring gardening since the temperatures gradually go down instead of up. This means it’s hot ...

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 ...

Snap beans, also called green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), have two basic growth forms that we use in the garden. Like the name suggests, bush beans are more compact, foliage growing in a mound shape ...

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 ...

Beans are a great garden crop for home gardeners here in northeast Oklahoma, and there are a variety of beans available that should fit most anyone’s growing style. I say “growing style” because ...

Most of us who garden don’t have the space to grow grain crops such as wheat or barley, but we have space to grow legumes such as beans and peas. Legumes are second in importance only to grains in the ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...