How to Plant and Grow Pole Beans Phaseolus vulgaris
Pole beans provide a delicious and bountiful harvest when planted in the summer vegetable garden.
Grown up trellises or stakes, this vertical crop is fun to sow, easy to pick, and can help maximize valuable garden real estate!
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Whether you’re interested in growing this crop because you’ve heard of some tasty pole cultivars, or you want to extend your garden with trellises or teepees, pole beans add both visual interest and culinary excitement to the summer veggie patch.
So that you get the most out of your crop, we’re going to cover everything you’ll need to know about growing this legume, and we’ll even provide some ideas for how to transform your harvest in the kitchen!
Ready to get the lowdown on planting and growing this lofty legume? Here’s what we’ll cover:
What Are Pole Beans?
Call it a wild guess, but I have a pretty strong suspicion that you know what a bean is.
Perhaps it would be helpful to scrutinize the term “pole bean” before we get started though, so we’re all on the same page?
Pole beans are legumes that have a vining growth habit and are trained to climb up trellises, stakes, or some other sort of support to keep their foliage growing skywards instead of creeping across the ground, or smothering the other plants in their path.
While there are actually many different species of legumes that have this type of growth habit, for the purposes of this article, we’re going to focus on just one member of the Fabaceae family.
That’s the common bean, botanically classified as Phaseolus vulgaris.
However, if you’re like me, you have an inquiring mind
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