Most bean plants are relegated to rows or patches in the vegetable garden. Although they are tasty and healthful, when it comes to looks, well, they didn’t win that lottery. However, the scarlet ...

Are you an adventurous gardener? I always like to try to mix in some new plants with those on the "tried and true" list. The last few years, we have tried some annual vines and they have been a great ...

A friend complained that she was tired of picking beans every day and asked what variety needed to be harvested only once or twice a week. Unfortunately, when it comes to beans, the harvest depends ...

Q. Our scarlet runner beans have grown well and produced many flowers, but few of the blooms have turned into beans. Instead, they simply fall off the tall vines. Why? A. I am asked this question ...

Simon Hopkinson's latest book is an English-looking volume with a Francophile sensibility, inspired by a meal thrown together from leftover... Serves 4, as a light lunch or supper I like the mimicry ...

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Laura Avery talks to Bruce Kalman, chef and owner of Union in Pasadena and Knead & Co at the Grand Central Market, and to farmer Lori Heal, of 2 Peas in a Pod in Arroyo Grande. Runner Beans (Photo by ...

The difference between a fresh green bean and a canned one is huge. But green beans (snap beans) aren’t the only kind of bean you can grow in Alaska. Runner and fava beans also do very well and you ...

Runner beans originated in Central America. With the scientific name Phaseolus coccineus, runner beans are members of the same species group as other common beans such as the green bean, black bean, ...

I SHOULD like to add to the remarks on bee visitors to the flower of the scarlet-runner bean contained in my letter in NATURE of July 28, p. 684, the following further observations. Some ten days from ...