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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

No green thumb? No problem.

Make a plan prior to planting that takes into account how much of the crop you plan to eat fresh, and how much you may want ...

Prior to European settlement in North America, many Native American groups grew three of their most important crops – corn, beans, and squash – all in one big jumbled bed. It was an elegant jumble, if ...

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 ...