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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We always save some of our Green Windsor broad beans as we cannot buy them now. However, this year we looked at the beans in the paper bag and some of them have holes in them! Also on inspection we ...

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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: ...