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So right! I just mow the bean plants and till it all in! It is a good idea to move your bean plantings regularly to avoid problems with following bean crops and to spread their benefits around your gardens. I often plant a newly broken garden entirely with beans the first planting.

Some varieties of bush beans have been bred to crop a large harvest all at once for canners and will start to die out after the first picking or two. A few varieties will continue to produce longer if kept well picked. The older varieties tend to produce longer. A few old names will pick for a...

They were more like cowpeas or crowder peas but not as good for me. I did not can any but dried a bunch and they cooked up ok and some folks liked them. I prefer crowder peas , blackeyes or similar, rather than the yard long bean. I stir fried some young and green and they were similar , ok but...

I have grown both a red and a green variety with great success here in the mid south. Impressive yields and can be very long! Best at about a foot long. I just do not favor the flavor of the beans. Maybe you will! They were OK for me but did not earn a return visit to my gardens. I had so many...

I suggest that looking into the beans that are known to do well in your local area is a good idea. I try a new variety or two every year for the last 40 years or so. Some do well here and some don't. Some that don't do well here seem to prosper in some different areas of the country and the...