Green Beans
Black bush bean
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The Pocket Farmer: I love the taste of a fresh steamed green bean and the little pop it makes when you bite into it. Served with a little parmesan or butter...yummy! It's a year 'round treat for me.
I usually plant bush beans, since we aren't tight for space, but it appears I am missing out on some great varieties. So, this year, sign me up for pole beans! :) |
Terri Seibech: Blue Lake Bush Beans!!
Jennifer Vazquez: I'm actually starting my garden this year and green beans are one of the veggies I'm planning! My faves to eat though are snaps. Guess that comes from living in the south cause when my mom was preparing them for the freezer by snapping of the ends I would always sneak and eat some!
Patty Kasiewicz: I like a half runner. its a semi string bean but even when it starts getting a bit old, it will cook up soft and not woody.
Cyndi Thomas: Bush is the best!!!
Rachel Weaver: this is also my first year doing beans, still trying to decide on which ones would be best to plant, may go with pole beans as space is an issue for us...
Peter Beckley: We don't have a lot of space, so we grow rather intensively, and grew Kentucky Wonders pole beans which gave us great yield in a small footprint. They need plenty of space to grow up, but they produce a lot.
Canning Granny: Half runners... none better!
Stephanie Johnson: Kentucky wonder & Tendergreen bush :)
Patty Opaczewski: I love the bush beans. The taste is great and the seem to take the least effort. My mom and I were in the grocery store yessterday and when we passed the sad beans in the store she said, "I can't wait until we have your fresh garden beans again." Me too!! Can't beat fresh from the garden!
Donna Wellman: Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans----easier on the back and produces LOTS of beans.
Montella Vest McKenzie: I love pole beans. Agree on the Kentucky Wonder....
Cathy Neal Burt: Roma! Good producer. Good canned and for freezer. I also have some "greasy bean" seeds. These are a pole bean. Great to eat and dry for "leather britches."
Beth Moseley Tisdale: Roma II bush beans. Beans are flat, stay tender and produce like crazy. And most important: They are delicious!
Debra Ahrens: Masai grows lots of tender small beans, but keep them picked because they go seedy fast. Pole beans have a more distinctive flavor and save a ton of space and your back. My favorite is Fortex, but have had good tasting ones on the yard-long varieties. I do find differences on flavor among beans, but what I really find varies is how they grow---how fast they get seedy, the total size they can get before they lose desirable texture, how well they reflower. If this is your
first garden, you will love whatever you try!
Randell Joseph Osburn: Buttered with a little salt and pepper.
Sandy Fritz: I also prefer Kentucy Wonder Pole since I also plant intensively. Then I plant my bush cucumbers below my beans, or something else compact.
Zion Daughter: It rains a lot here so I plant pole, the bush beans tends to rot on the ends that touch the ground. When I lived in Montana I grew bush because they came on faster and it was a dry climate.
Rebecca Green: I've always grown bush and worked fine here in Wisconsin....but this year we are going to do both and see if one is better than the other.
The wandering chicken and mini-farm: bush. i got over 35Qts off of a 6ft row last year!!!
Charolette Dingley: White half runners! You can grow them on the ground or run them up a pole. If you like the bean and not just the outside then this is the bean for you!!
Sharon Hardy: Dade Heirloom Beans, -they are pole beans.. Best tastin I ever had, I had beans galore last year just from my back yard raised veggie bed!
Patti De Graaf: I have always grown the blue lake bush beans. They're great!
Laurie Neverman: Emerite pole beans are my favorite green bean. Extremely prolific, they produce streadily until hard frost. They stay tender until quite large. If you'd like a little color, try Purple Podded Pole Beans. They cook up green, but are easier to find when picking than the green ones, which can blend in to the foliage. Solid producer, but not as heavy as the Emerites. For yellow beans, I prefer Sultan's Crescent pole beans. They are tender and mild, and easier to pick than bush beans. The only bush beans I grow are shell beans. My favorite variety is Tiger Eye, which has a rich, buttery texture.
Dave Balla: I like the asthetics of pole beans but I had great success with bush beans this past year.
Barbara Stanley Smith: Blue Lake bush FOR SURE!!!
Lifestyles Of The Not So Rich And Famous: I prefer the pole beans.. they take up less garden space :-)
Peggie Mullins Bledsoe Rattlesnake pole beans - produce like crazy, make a great snap bean to can, also good to dry like a pinto bean
Jennifer Vazquez: I'm actually starting my garden this year and green beans are one of the veggies I'm planning! My faves to eat though are snaps. Guess that comes from living in the south cause when my mom was preparing them for the freezer by snapping of the ends I would always sneak and eat some!
Patty Kasiewicz: I like a half runner. its a semi string bean but even when it starts getting a bit old, it will cook up soft and not woody.
Cyndi Thomas: Bush is the best!!!
Rachel Weaver: this is also my first year doing beans, still trying to decide on which ones would be best to plant, may go with pole beans as space is an issue for us...
Peter Beckley: We don't have a lot of space, so we grow rather intensively, and grew Kentucky Wonders pole beans which gave us great yield in a small footprint. They need plenty of space to grow up, but they produce a lot.
Canning Granny: Half runners... none better!
Stephanie Johnson: Kentucky wonder & Tendergreen bush :)
Patty Opaczewski: I love the bush beans. The taste is great and the seem to take the least effort. My mom and I were in the grocery store yessterday and when we passed the sad beans in the store she said, "I can't wait until we have your fresh garden beans again." Me too!! Can't beat fresh from the garden!
Donna Wellman: Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans----easier on the back and produces LOTS of beans.
Montella Vest McKenzie: I love pole beans. Agree on the Kentucky Wonder....
Cathy Neal Burt: Roma! Good producer. Good canned and for freezer. I also have some "greasy bean" seeds. These are a pole bean. Great to eat and dry for "leather britches."
Beth Moseley Tisdale: Roma II bush beans. Beans are flat, stay tender and produce like crazy. And most important: They are delicious!
Debra Ahrens: Masai grows lots of tender small beans, but keep them picked because they go seedy fast. Pole beans have a more distinctive flavor and save a ton of space and your back. My favorite is Fortex, but have had good tasting ones on the yard-long varieties. I do find differences on flavor among beans, but what I really find varies is how they grow---how fast they get seedy, the total size they can get before they lose desirable texture, how well they reflower. If this is your
first garden, you will love whatever you try!
Randell Joseph Osburn: Buttered with a little salt and pepper.
Sandy Fritz: I also prefer Kentucy Wonder Pole since I also plant intensively. Then I plant my bush cucumbers below my beans, or something else compact.
Zion Daughter: It rains a lot here so I plant pole, the bush beans tends to rot on the ends that touch the ground. When I lived in Montana I grew bush because they came on faster and it was a dry climate.
Rebecca Green: I've always grown bush and worked fine here in Wisconsin....but this year we are going to do both and see if one is better than the other.
The wandering chicken and mini-farm: bush. i got over 35Qts off of a 6ft row last year!!!
Charolette Dingley: White half runners! You can grow them on the ground or run them up a pole. If you like the bean and not just the outside then this is the bean for you!!
Sharon Hardy: Dade Heirloom Beans, -they are pole beans.. Best tastin I ever had, I had beans galore last year just from my back yard raised veggie bed!
Patti De Graaf: I have always grown the blue lake bush beans. They're great!
Laurie Neverman: Emerite pole beans are my favorite green bean. Extremely prolific, they produce streadily until hard frost. They stay tender until quite large. If you'd like a little color, try Purple Podded Pole Beans. They cook up green, but are easier to find when picking than the green ones, which can blend in to the foliage. Solid producer, but not as heavy as the Emerites. For yellow beans, I prefer Sultan's Crescent pole beans. They are tender and mild, and easier to pick than bush beans. The only bush beans I grow are shell beans. My favorite variety is Tiger Eye, which has a rich, buttery texture.
Dave Balla: I like the asthetics of pole beans but I had great success with bush beans this past year.
Barbara Stanley Smith: Blue Lake bush FOR SURE!!!
Lifestyles Of The Not So Rich And Famous: I prefer the pole beans.. they take up less garden space :-)
Peggie Mullins Bledsoe Rattlesnake pole beans - produce like crazy, make a great snap bean to can, also good to dry like a pinto bean
