Among the easiest garden vegetables to grow, green beans—also known as string or snap beans—usually mature 50 to 70 days after you sow the seeds outdoors. Therefore, you can grow green bean plants ...

Whether you call them string beans, snap beans, or haricots verts, green beans are a great addition to any backyard garden, and because they're easy to grow and harvest, they can be a good gateway ...

Joan Hinkemeyer is as crazy about green beans as some gardeners are for homegrown tomatoes. The Denver gardener says nothing compares to the taste of a freshly picked green bean. “They’re better than ...

My wife, Ann, just returned from the local supermarket with a plastic bag of snap beans. Though she's aware of my utter disdain for store-bought beans, she buys them, anyway. "What else am I supposed ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

Q. My pole beans all germinated and started growing nicely, but I noticed that the leaves are wrinkled and weird-looking. They are still growing, but they are not as lush as my other pole beans and ...