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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this video, Martha Stewart shares her recipe for seven bean salad. This simple salad combines chickpeas, dried snowcap beans that have been cooked, scarlet runner beans, dried kidney beans, ...

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 ...

Question: I would like to try growing fava beans but don’t know much about them. I’ve only grown scarlet runner beans in the past. Can you offer some tips? Answer: Sure! Fava beans can be a wonderful ...

Answer: Beans can be grown in average soil anywhere in Southern California, and now is a good time to plant most varieties. Of all garden vegetables, the lowly bean--which is grown worldwide--may ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...