Farmer Anna Pfenninger of Suburban Fresh Farm in Marietta says her favorite vegetables to grow are beans.

Green beans, sometimes called snap beans or string beans, are grown either as bush beans or pole beans. Bush beans grow on upright plants, and some are compact enough to grow in large containers.

All beans like warm weather and full sun. Bush beans are shorter and better suited than pole beans to containers. Bush beans tend to all produce at once so for a continuous crop you would start ...

Why wouldn't you want to eat good-tasting beans two to three weeks earlier in the summer? So, at the same time you seed or transplant pole beans, seed or transplant a row or two of bush beans.

Before I was old enough to ride a bike, my grandparents taught me how to string and break bushels of beans from their garden. We ate what we could each summer and then canned or dried all that our ...

• Pole beans with their vining habits and can be trained up poles, trellises, netting, or supportive structures such as a teepee. With proper support pole beans can also be grown in containers.

Purple, wax and other colorful pole beans are another seasonal option that provides vertical interest in a garden bed or screens a bad view.

For the project they chose 12 types of pole beans, which take longer to mature, and seven bush bean varieties. While the latter may require a bit more ground space, they are container friendly and ...

You can start beans indoors in peat pots or seed trays, but I've found that those started indoors and those started directly in the garden mature at the same rate.

Known as green beans or snap beans in other parts of Denver, Cole pole beans are excellent, inner-city stringless bean plants that are far more productive than bush bean variety. The perfect ...