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Encyclopedia Botanica Podcast, Episode 46: Choosing the Right Beans For Your Garden

May 26, 2017 hilary dahl
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There are so many types and varieties of beans to choose from, that picking the right types to grow in your garden can be confusing. In this episode we discuss the 3 main culinary categories that beans are broken into, and how each of these types are grown in your garden. We compare growth habits, crop lifespans, and productivity differences between beans, including sharing some of our favorite varieties.

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In this episode, we discuss:

  • The three main types of beans

  • The growth habits and crop lifecycles of different beans

  • The productivity difference between dry beans and fresh beans

  • Varieties we recommend

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Important Take-aways:

  • Snap beans are the type of beans that you eat whole, so that means you eat the pod or shell and the seeds that it encases. Your standard “green beans” are all snap beans because you’re eating the pod along with the immature bean seeds.

  • Fresh shell beans are dry bean varieties that are harvested when the pod is still green and the inner beans are very tender.

  • Dry beans are shelling beans that are harvested after they’re fully mature and the pods are withered and dry (they’re usually dried further for extended storage).

  • All beans have two different growth habits, pole and bush. Pole beans are usually grown vertically on a trellis, and bush beans are shorter and don’t need to be trellised. There are many types of bush and pole beans and in fact, some types and varieties come in both growth forms.

  • From a productivity standpoint, if you're a smaller space urban or suburban gardener, snap beans will produce more yield per square foot than shelling beans.

  • Favorite varieties:

    • Bush snap beans:  Provider, Royal Burgundy, Indy Gold Wax Bean (Golden Wax is a non-patented alternative), Greencrop

    • Pole snap beans:  Fortex

    • Shelling beans:  Kenearly Yellow Eye, Cananolini, Cranberry, Drangon langrie (can also be eaten fresh)

Some of these varieties are carried by our friends at Seattle Seed Co. Remember to use the coupon code EBPODCAST for %15 off of your order, anytime!

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Hilary Dahl
Hilary Dahl

Hilary Dahl is a co-owner of Seattle Urban Farm Company and host of the Encyclopedia Botanica podcast. Since 2010 Hilary Dahl has been helping beginning and experienced growers create beautiful and productive gardens. She has the unique experience of working in on a wide range of projects, from small backyard garden plots to multi-acre vegetable farms. She also works in her own garden every day after work. Hilary is also the creator of our podcast, the Encyclopedia Botanica, which she started as a way to share effective and efficient garden management techniques, and as a way to spread her love of growing food and flowers!

Colin McCrate
Colin McCrate

Colin McCrate has been growing food organically for over 25 years. He worked on a variety of small farms in the Midwest before moving to the west coast in 2003 to teach garden-based environmental education. He founded the Seattle Urban Farm Company in 2007 with the goal of applying years of horticultural and agricultural expertise to help aspiring growers get projects off the ground or more accurately; in the ground.

Since starting Seattle Urban Farm Co in 2007, he has helped guide hundreds of urban farmers through the design, construction and management of their own edible landscape. Colin is the author of three books; Food Grown Right, In Your Backyard(Mountaineers Books, 2012) and Grow More Food (Storey Publishing, 2022); and is a garden writer for the Seattle Times.

 

 

In Annual Vegetables, Podcast Tags green beans, growing green beans, growing beans, bush beans, pole beans, growing snap beans, organic vegetable gardening
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