Green Beans

Provide enough space. To plant bush bean seeds, sow them about one to one and a half inches deep and three inches apart, with your… Read More »How Much Room Do Green Beans Need To Grow?

Raw green beans are 90% water, 7% carbohydrates, 2% protein, and contain negligible fat (table). In a 100 gram (3.5 oz) reference amount, raw green… Read More »What Are Green Beans Made Of?

What Are Green Beans? Green beans are the unripe fruits of the common bush bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), of which there are numerous cultivars. What kind… Read More »What Kind Of Beans Are Green Beans?

The only part of the bean that always needs to be removed is the tip of the stem end (this is sometimes called “topping” the… Read More »Which End Of Green Beans Do You Cut?

This early-bearing, bush Roma variety is an old Italian favorite, reselected for great taste and improved yields. The vigorous 2 foot plants bear heavy harvests… Read More »Do Roma Green Beans Have Strings?

Some beans are referred to as string beans, as they have a string that is often removed prior to cooking, lest the beans are too… Read More »Why Do Some Green Beans Have Strings?

Green beans are young, unripe fruits of various cultivars of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), although immature or young pods of the runner bean (Phaseolus… Read More »Are Green Beans Just Immature Beans?

Answer: Yes, the dry seeds of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) are edible. In fact, they have been used for thousands of years for soups,… Read More »Do You Eat The Seeds In Green Beans?

A natural group of chemicals, called anthocyanins, are what put the purple in purple green beans, as well as in grapes, plums and, less familiar,… Read More »Why Are The Beans Inside My Green Beans Purple?

they make when they are opened. They are actually immature kidney beans harvested young before their pods become too fibrous to eat. Both the pods… Read More »Can You Eat The Pods Of Green Beans?