Beans

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  Lazy Wife Beans

  BY:Deborah Niemann

  When faced with the huge variety of seeds available, it can be a challenge to choose only one of each vegetable for your garden. After all, you only need one, right? Well, not so fast! There are actually a few good reasons to plant a variety of varieties in your garden, especially when you are [...]

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  Easy Durable Raised Bed Trellising

  BY:Josh and Brent

  Many of our favorite vegetables in the Beekman Heirloom Vegetable Garden require some sort of trellising – tomatoes, beans, peas, melons, cucumbers. When we put in our raised garden two years ago, we were determined to devise a trellising system that was easy to assemble, and would last for years. We were sick of weaving [...]

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  Sowing Fava Beans

  BY:Josh Kilmer-Purcell

  Whenever we have visitors from the UK, they seem to go crazy about Fava beans. It’s a sure sign of spring for them. Since we have a short, cold growing season, our fava beans don’t come until July at the earliest, but they’re still one of the first things that go in the ground each [...]

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  What Dr. Brent Says about Beans…

  BY:Dr. Brent

  NOTHING IS BETTER THAN A POT OF GREEN BEANS and boiled new potatoes.  Nothing! Green beans are a good source of Vitamin K (which is important in bone formation), Vitamin A and Vitamin C.    Beta-carotene, lutein and zeaxanthin have anti-inflammatory properties Green beans are often a highlight of the garden, but kidney beans, navy beans, [...]

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  Bean Varieties

  BY:Josh and Brent

  Hill of beans

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