beans

Dealing with Green Bean Pests

Dealing with Green Bean Pests

Pests on your green bean plants, left unchecked, can damage and destroy your green bean crop. Keeping a close watch on your plants during regular daily inspections will help you  …
Dealing with Green Bean Diseases

Dealing with Green Bean Diseases

Like all food crops, green beans are susceptible to various fungal diseases. Your greatest weapons against these are best planting practices, which help prevent disease in the first place.  …
Harvesting your Green Beans

Harvesting your Green Beans

If you’ve provided your green bean plants with light, water, and nutrition, you will be rewarded with a healthy yield. Bush beans will produce ready-to-pick fruit about seven to eight  …
Nurturing your Green Beans

Nurturing your Green Beans

Once your green beans are established, keep them watered consistently, especially when flowering as that keeps the flowers coming. Green beans need 1 to 2 inches of water per square  …
Growing Green Beans in Containers

Growing Green Beans in Containers

Bush beans and pole beans both grow well in containers. Because beans are a warm weather plant, if your region has particularly cold springs where soil temperatures don’t warm up  …
Where to Grow Green Beans

Where to Grow Green Beans

Green beans thrive on sunshine and well-drained soil with a pH of 6.0 to 7.0. Green beans aren’t too particular about their soil, though, so long as it’s warm enough  …
Growing Beans from Seeds and Seedlings

Growing Beans from Seeds and Seedlings

Green beans germinate and grow so quickly that gardeners rarely start them indoors as seedlings. In fact, green beans do not respond well to transplanting because they have tender roots.  …
Types of Green Beans

Types of Green Beans

There are two basic types of green beans: bush beans and pole beans. As you might expect, bush beans are low growing and pole beans need support and grow tall.  …