Questions tagged [green-beans]
Common name for unripe beans, especially Phaseolus vulgaris.
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What is wrong with my bush bean tendergreen leaves?
My bush bean leaves are getting these brown spots, and I can’t quite figure out what’s wrong with them. It doesn’t look like bean rust, and there aren’t any aphids that I can see. I water them every ...
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How to control Kentucky Wonder beans and very tall-growing tomatoes
Last year, my Kentucky Wonder green beans outgrew a very tall tipi with string horizontals I had given it. The same thing happened with an indeterminate tomato plant with a very tall stake, I forget ...
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Is it possible to un-plant bush beans planted in error?
I re-seeded my pole beans yesterday, after soaking the seeds. Today I discovered I had confused the bush bean packet with the pole bean packet, and what I actually planted yesterday, along the edges ...
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More Than One Harvest from Beans?
I planted a row of climbing green beans in the spring and enjoyed good healthy plants; they flowered and grew plenty of delicious beans.
Now I am ready to tear them up and plant new seeds. My wife is ...
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Why are these bean plant leaves misshapen?
I've planted a few rows of green bush beans and some of the sprouts have misshapen leaves (see images below). Some beans are perfectly fine whereas others are totally mangled.
The soil is sandy but ...
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Support Structures for Green beans and peas
Growing green beans and peas in my raised garden bed and wanted to know about supports for these plants. For the peas I plan on just using canes in the ground and tying them up as such. I also ...
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I have a question about a disease on my green beans
I'm not sure if this is a disease or a bit as weather-related on my green beans can someone give me any idea, my beans have a purple almost black all over them it's not a texter nor is it slamming I ...
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Some of my bush beans are light green, is this a problem?
In the picture you can see five Romano bush bean plants in my raised bed. These are all exactly the same variety; in fact, they came out of the same six-pack of seedlings from the nursery. Yet, four ...
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What is causing brown and yellow patches on the leaves of my bush beans?
These bush green beans have been champs, continually producing even though they look like they should die (and it's mid-August in Zone 5, having had some massively warm spells).
However they have ...
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How near to each other should I plant my vegetable and fruit plants?
The plants I have started are: lettuce, tomato, carrots, green beans, kidney beans, peppers, and cantaloupe. I've never grown any of these things before, or much of anything before. If there any ...
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Why are my bean leaves curled with white splotches?
My beans received fertilizer occasionally in the spring to get them going, and now each plant has several beans growing. However, I noticed that many leaves are curled, deformed (like an old scar), or ...
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Regrow beans from the garden
I grew some green pole beans (variety unknown) this year from commercial seed, and I'd like to harvest some seeds from the plants to regrow for next year.
How do I do this?
I tried just picking some ...
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Why would two batches of Top Crop Bush Bean (green beans) seeds be different
I bought some green bean seeds a week ago, I just ripped open the bag, and there's no way to reseal it. Anyway, a week later I compared the beans I have with the ones still in the store. Mine were a ...
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Using Sunflowers as living bean poles
About a month ago I got the idea to try growing pole beans (Kentucky Wonder) and using my sunflowers as support instead of bothering to put up a trellis. Of course it wasn't until after I bought the ...
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Why are my French Cobra bean flowers not being pollinated?
I have French Cobra bean which I heard is supposed to self pollinate. In the mean time all the flowers just dry out and fall off leaving a small stem behind. It's the first time I grow beans and I ...
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Can I plant peas, green beans and lettuce this early?
The weather this year has been exceptionally mild here in northern Illinois, and I am thinking of planting my peas, green beans and lettuce in the next couple weeks. This is probably a full four weeks ...
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How do I get tender green beans?
We have successfully grown a nice crop of green beans this year, but in contrast to store-bought beans the skin is quite tough.
Is there a trick to cultivating more tender beans? Or is it a matter of ...
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Harvesting beans to prolong cropping - but how thorough do I need to be?
It is said that if you let your runner/french beans reach full maturity, the plant stops producing.
So I harvest my beans (even if only to throw/give them away) regularly to prolong cropping.
How ...
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French beans (Green beans): Dwarf v. Climbing
French beans (or "green beans") are widely sold in both dwarf (bush) and climbing (pole) varieties. If anything, my experience is that the climbing varieties are harder to find in seed outlets.
Apart ...
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What is the best method for trellising green beans?
I have 6 rows of green beans that have now grown to about 12" in height and I want to give them something to climb.
What is the best method of trellising them?
I was thinking about grabbing some ...
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