Growing fava beans is like four crops in one: flavorful fresh pods, both fresh and dry beans, and –surprise! – delicious ...

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 ...

Gardener sowing seeds in the ground - Susumu Yoshioka/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. While purchasing seedlings from your local nursery is a good way to get a ...

Question: I have some purple pole beans that I grew this summer. I got the seed from a friend. She says they are called Kew Blue. Can I save these bean seeds from my crop for next year? If this fails, ...

This is an old cutshort variety with two divergent histories. On the one hand‚ it was preserved among the Amish farmers of southeastern Pennsylvania under the name Gnuddelbuhn, which translates as a ...

Left: The author's Granny Ruby Haynes Caudill, 97, was a postmistress and seamstress. She passed on the bean seed and the stories that went with them. Right: Katharine Campbell Haynes and William ...

The first spring that Shirley Bellows planted the special bean this story is about, she picked it off a list in the Upper Canada Seeds company catalogue and sent $2 by cheque in the mail to Toronto ...

Productive and resilientResearchers across California are developing new varieties of dry beans and testing them in a hunt ...