Looking for a cute dessert you can add to your Easter dinner menu? These adorable flower cupcakes are perfect since they don’t require much time and are a great use for all those jelly beans! Not only ...

Most bean plants are relegated to rows or patches in the vegetable garden. Although they are tasty and healthful, when it comes to looks, well, they didn’t win that lottery. However, the scarlet ...

Snap beans, also called “green beans” or “string beans” (although most modern varieties do not have strings) are harvested when the pods contain immature seeds, and the pods are still succulent. Types ...

Sweltering heat and bright sunlight do not a tropical garden make, even if many common garden plants, from marigolds to okra, do hail from the tropics. That tropical look comes from lush, bold foliage ...

Trying to recapture a Chinese food experience from your past is usually disappointing, but I hit the four-star-hot jackpot at Szechuan Bean Flower. When I lived in New York, my favorite Chinese ...

Runner beans come in a range of varieties and can be easily grown as climbers or in containers. These stringless beans are ideal for adding to home-cooked meals, offering a large harvest throughout ...

When I was young and idle, I’d dream of a self-refilling pint of cider. Now I’m older and immeasurably less interesting, I dream of the slightly more realistic horticultural equivalent: beans and ...

The corn is up, the tomatoes are turning red already, the basil is abundant and I think I’m going to plant me a plot of beans. Beans, if you’ve never grown them, are like the zinnias of the flower set ...

You have probably seen this one’s bright butter-yellow flowers, the plants commonly very abundant in old agricultural fields and roadsides. The plants are sometimes present in the thousands and they ...

This Goan butter bean curry from Calum Harris shows how quick plant-based meals can come together with bold flavor ...