How and When to Plant Scarlet Runner Bean. These beans are easiest to sow directly in the garden after all danger of frost has passed. If you have a short growing season, start your plants indoors ...

Pairing beans and cucumbers is an extension of the Three Sisters Garden. While these crops can be grown together, the greatest benefit will be achieved when cucumbers are planted after beans. Consider ...

Before they can be eaten, fava beans need to be blanched; boil a pot of water and add salt until it’s as briny as the ocean. Drop your fava beans into the salty brew, cook for one minute, and drain.

Picking beans from wet plants can spread bean bacterial blight, a disease that seriously damages the plants. Be careful not to break the stems or branches, which are brittle on most bean varieties.

The pole beans will be planted a few weeks later or when the corn plants are 6-12” tall. Before planting the young pole beans around the mound's edge do a good weeding if needed.