Answer: Beans can be grown in average soil anywhere in Southern California, and now is a good time to plant most varieties. Of all garden vegetables, the lowly bean--which is grown worldwide--may ...

Blue Jay beans had all but disappeared from Canadian gardens, until a seed saver and her grassroots network revived it. Their success illustrates how to save plants that might someday save us. Growing ...

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 ...

The sign on the bushel baskets read, "Bean seeds for children to play with," the baskets half-filled with dry beans of many colors. They'd been placed on the ground in the Fedco Seeds booth at the ...

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 ...

Dear Helen: My partner and I are soon to embark on our summer “discussions” on the subject of when, exactly, our green beans should be picked and consumed. She wants to harvest them while they are, in ...

When the pods turn black and dry out, you’ll have seeds ready to save for next year’s crop. The tender shoots and white or pale blue flowers can be eaten raw, and add a lot of pizzazz to summer salads ...

Sow True Seed's Glenwood Cut Short greasy bean seeds. Last December, a cotton sack arrived at the headquarters of Sow True Seed, a small Asheville-based seed company selling open-pollinated and ...

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: ...