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Growing Green Beans in Home Gardens

Homegrown beans are fresh, nutritious and relatively easy to grow, making them a good choice for first-time gardeners. Edible-pod beans were once called “string” beans, due to the stringy fiber along the seam of the pod. Modern varieties are mostly free of tough fibers allowing the pod to snap into segments easily for cooking or preserving, thus the name “snap” bean. There are a few cultivars of snap bean with yellow or purple-colored pods. Usually, the purple color fades during cooking, revealing a green pod. Harvest green beans for their edible pod when the seeds start to form, but before they begin to bulge, keeping the seeds tender and sweet.

green beans

Green bean photo source: Jeremy Keith, UK, via Wikimedia Commons

For more information on growing green beans in your home garden, go to http://pubs.extension.wsu.edu/vegetables-growing-green-beans-in-home-gardens-home-garden-series

Submitted by: Sheila Gray, May 29, 2015

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