Bean
Phaseolus vulgaris
Journals (498)
Where does it grow?
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Harvesting: First bean harvested
This entry is about Istara's Violet Queen bean in the The Good Life 2.0 garden.
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Flowering: Flower buds have appeared
This entry is about Istara's Violet Queen bean in the The Good Life 2.0 garden.
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BEAN VIOLET QUEEN BUSH BEAN Phaseolus vulgaris Prodigious crops of deep purple tender beans for months. Outstanding and prolific.
This entry is about Istara's Violet Queen bean in the The Good Life 2.0 garden.
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Dying: These are ex-bean plants
Good run, guys. Always tough to be the subject of an experiment.This entry is about Nax's Late summer beans in the Experimental garden.
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Harvesting: November (!) Harvest
Hard to see the scale, but they’re very small. The largest of the beans is about 2" long; I don’t think this beet is the largest I’ve got, but I didn’t pull these until I got home and it was pretty dark. I’ll pull some more tomorrow. I did finally just pull t...
This entry is about Nax's Late summer beans in the Experimental garden.
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This is the second year I’ve grown Kentucky Wonder Beans, and I’m loving it. There’s just nothing like picking through vines to find perfect, plump, juicy beans to take right into the house and stir-fry with a little bit of Balsamic Vinegar and a whole lot of fresh garlic. Sta...
This entry is about S1ren's Kentucky Wonder Beans in the Vegetable Garden #1: House garden.
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This entry is about Finny's Kentucky blue lake green beans in the Vegetables 08 garden.
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Setting Fruit: Teeny little beans growing out of the flowers
There are loads of bush beans covered in flowers in the backyard now, and many of them have these little needle-like baby beans coming out of them. Fresh green beans: not far off! Not sure if I’ll rip the plants up after the main crop, or cut them back down to the ground and see if they reg...
This entry is about Glittertrash's Bush bean "Windsor Long Pod" in the Nunnery Vegetable garden.
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I thought these were pole beans, and planted them around the base of a metal sculpture so they could climb, but a web search suggests they’re actually bush beans. I put some snake beans in as well so that they can do the climbing if these do in fact come up as bush beans. Either way, I love...
This entry is about Glittertrash's Sex Without Strings beans in the Nunnery Vegetable garden.
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Climbing, gripping, ever-upwards... the race begins...
Oh I love it when pole beans finally get to the point of grabbing onto their support and begin their sprints upwards & upwards! They seem to grow much faster once they’ve gripped on to something, I wonder if this is actually true, or if it only seems that way because they wind so tight....
This entry is about Glittertrash's Purple King pole beans in greens bed in the Nunnery Vegetable garden.
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