What a welcoming thought! You step outside your door and reach down to a collection of greenery-filled terracotta planters on your patio. You harvest a handful of fresh green beans, which you take ...

Pole beans are climbing artists in the vegetable garden. They require little ground space, grow quickly, and can even serve as a green privacy screen. However, cultivation doesn’t happen on its own.

We regularly drove past a beautiful garden. I was fascinated with the tripod forms supporting plants. I later learned they’re pole beans. So neatly placed and obediently growing on those forms, they ...

A Three Sisters garden turns an ordinary backyard patch into one of the smartest planting systems around. Corn shoots upward ...

Hi All, Lane County Extension Service Master Gardener John Fischer here with KLCC's Good Gardening. I've been growing plants ...

Q. My pole beans all germinated and started growing nicely, but I noticed that the leaves are wrinkled and weird-looking. They are still growing, but they are not as lush as my other pole beans and ...