I don’t know one person who doesn’t like green beans. My son Monkey Boy will only eat them raw, but everyone else in our family could totally eat a plate full of delicious green sticks for dinner. There is now doubt about it, beans are cool!
Brief description: Beans have long edible pods and beans inside that can also be eaten. They are great for snacking on raw, cooking, or canning.
Where to Plant Beans: Plant in full sun after danger of last frost. Plant in raised beds, garden beds, and even containers if they are big enough.
Planting Seeds: Plant seeds 1″ deep. Most packets say to thin them to every 4 inches, but I think that is crazy and typically space them every 2″ to maximize my crop.
Growing Tips: Beans are awesome for succession planting. If you plan it right, you should be able to get a crop from June all the way through September. I sometimes have troubles with the birds getting to my bean sprouts, so I tend to over plant them to compensate. If the birds don’t get to them, I go back and thin them later.
How to Harvest: To harvest, snap beans off the plant by hold the plant firmly {so that you don’t damage it while picking}. Beans taste better when they are thinner than a pencil, so try to pick them before they get too big.
Are you ready to start your garden but you’re not sure when you should plant your seeds or set out your transplants? Head on over HERE and you’ll be taken to a handy dandy chart that is broken down into what vegetables should be planted {or transplanted} each month in your area.
Anyone can do this. Dirt + Seeds+ Water = Food!
~Mavis
Here are a few of my Favorite Bean recipes:
Green Beans with Sweet Onions and Bacon
Pasta Salad with Green Beans, Tomatoes, and Roasted Peppers
Fact: Beans have been found in Egyptian tombs–apparently they thought they were easy to grow too.
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Knitting with Olof says
It is that time I guess. I’m hoping we got our last freeze here in Tulsa, OK on Thursday night. I’m surprised that my tomatoes are still alive. Got sick of having teenaged chickens in my kitchen so they got booted out with the heatlamp yesterday.
Sakura says
Greenbeans are my favorite item to can!
Helen in Meridian says
I love your sock monkey pink top. I have the red sock monkey pj’s . Sock monkey was my husband’s “doll” when he was little.
Mavis says
Picking vegetables in your pajamas is the best. 🙂
Tracy says
roma II bush beans are my fav. They are wide and flat. Super Yum!!!!
Mary Ann says
I know you don’t know me, but you now know OF someone that doesn’t like green beans! lol My husband likes them, so I grow them every year for him (and my nephews that work for us). This year I’m growing bush and pole beans (pole for the first time). I should have beans on the bush plants in about a week.
My favs are broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, and asparagus!
Wynne says
Thanks for the spacing info! I’m growing pole beans for the first time this year and was just getting ready to thin them to 6″ — guess I’ll skip that. (I hope my PVC trellis holds up.) Do you use inoculant? I’ve read beans and peas are great for adding nitrogen to the soil but that you need to add some bacteria to make the fertilizing process work.
Sue says
Mary Ann, you’re not the only one — I don’t like green beans either! (Although, pickled I like them just fine…) I love a large variety of veggies, just not those, at least not enough to grow them.
Sue says
should clarify — I like green beans when [i]they[/i] are pickled, not when I am! 😉