If you haven’t eaten Romano green beans fresh from the garden, you can’t imagine how delicious they are. The difference between homegrown beans and the frozen or commercially farmed beans from the ...

Dear Master Gardener: I was given a small plant as a gift last spring. It grew into a gigantic plant with striking leaves and spiky pink seed pods. I've learned it is a castor bean plant. I'd like to ...

I was perusing through one of the gardening Facebook groups I belong to when I ran across a discussion on Chinese long beans, also called yard long beans. I have been wanting to try this style of ...

Q: I planted bush bean seeds several weeks ago, but nothing has come up. I have been watering every day, and I added lots of compost to the bed. How long does it take for beans to sprout? The seeds ...

A friend complained that she was tired of picking beans every day and asked what variety needed to be harvested only once or twice a week. Unfortunately, when it comes to beans, the harvest depends ...

‘I was hoping to grow some beans this year, but have I waited too long to plant?” — B.G. Beans are pretty easy to grow. At our Seed to Supper Farm, where we teach Master Gardeners about growing ...

One of my favorite science projects in elementary school was one in which I studied and exhibited the growth of bean seeds. It was fascinating to me to place dried beans on moistened paper towels on ...

Until I went off to college and became a vegetarian out of financial necessity, beans really weren’t a part of my life. But once I found myself pinching pennies while sharing a house with three other ...