Q: We have two beautiful hyacinth bean plants in our yard and would like to know how to get more next year. Can the seeds be saved and replanted for next spring? If so, how do you go about it? 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...