Growing fava beans (Vicia faba), also known as broad beans, is a remarkably rewarding experience in the vegetable garden. This cool-season legume is a culinary knockout not only for its delicious, ...

Dry beans and peas are a healthy staple crop that can be stored long into winter. With a huge variety of colorful pods and seed shapes and colors, it’s almost impossible to grow every kind of bean and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beans can give, and give, and give right up until the end of the season. It doesn't take much to care for string beans — ...

Green beans are one of my favorite vegetables to grow. These attractive and productive plants deserve a place in every vegetable garden. The two types of green beans are bush and pole. They are ...

Pole beans continue to grow, flower, and set fruits over a long period of time. The pods and seeds will mature in succes¬sion, based on when the fruits were set. Filled with advice for the home ...

Time lapse journey of growing a green bean plant in a container from seed to harvest-able pods. It took beanie about 60 days ...

Q: A friend of mine gave me some seeds of castor bean. I understand the plant is very poisonous but it is beautiful and I would like to grow it. Someone else told me it might be illegal to grow. Your ...

When farmers ask Matt Duesterhaus whether they can reduce soybean planting populations and still produce high yields, his brief answer is it depends on the specific cards in their hand. “Some of those ...

Yesterday, I complained of my lameness when it comes to starting seeds. I should have talked to Josh Kirschenbaum first. As product development guy at for a little more than 10 years (which sounds ...

I recently had the opportunity to speak to about 250 first- and second-graders about the topic of garden seeds. This (very well-behaved) group was quite intelligent. They asked some great questions, ...

“Coco de Boheme pole bean (75 days shell, or 100 days dry) is a French heirloom dry bean whose vining plants grow about ...