#pole beans

[cryptonature]

Dolly and I checking on the pole beans.

[geocyclist]

Catching up on gardening with this spring’s latest project, the bean wall! First steps were marking out a 32’ by 2’ section along the top of the ridge in the backyard, rough tilling, cutting edges, then tilling deeper using the edges as a guide.

About two wheelbarrows of rock dug out to make room for T posts and then fixing cattle panels to let the beans climb. The trellis is one and a half panels tall and two panels long.

Finally planted this evening after topping up the bed with fresh sifted compost! Lima, coco, vaquero, soldier, bayo chocolate, kentucky wonder, and scarlet runner beans planted. Can’t wait for this to be covered in bean vines.

[inthecityofgoodabode]

October 2025: Food & Flowers

Seen while walking:

Saturday harvest

Chrysanthemum from holidays past:

Our bee house has more occupants although they are predatory wasp larva rather than bees:

Who knew a long bean's blossom was beautiful:

We made a Low Country boil on Saturday & my queen made eggrolls with the leftover crab meat, shrimp & corn. They were delicious:

Monday harvest:

[hauntedpotat]

Hello. I'm posting my culinary feats on tumblr dot com because I think some people would benefit from this :)

Here's how to make my favorite green beans since I just made some and realized why I love them again

Get yourself some green beans. Not the canned ones (although those are a comfort food in their own right), fresh green beans. I got mine from my garden, but they're probably in grocery stores too

Wash, cut off both ends, and then you're ready to go. Mine were blanched and frozen after this because I harvested them a few months ago, so if that's the case then thaw them.

Melt some bacon grease/butter in a pan that you can comfortably fit your beans in. I usually start with bacon grease and then add butter when it dries out, but do what you want

Add the beans!! I usually season with lemon pepper, seasoned salt*, onion powder, and garlic powder (ABSOLUTELY recommend btw) but most combos work

Cook on a medium heat until they get floppy and a bit brown, replace your bacon grease/butter when you need to, and that's it. I usually plate with a bit more butter and parmesan cheese, but they would be good without

*don't add too much salt in the beginning! Bacon grease, butter, parmesan all add salt

I absolutely love these, and they're pretty easy to make. I also recommend that if you serve with mashed potatoes to add a bit of garlic powder into those too, just to give them a little more oomph

Growing beans is so nice and good!! That's not why I made this post, but they're probably the best plant in my garden. They're pretty versatile too, if you don't have a lot of horizontal space you can grow pole beans, or vice versa for bush beans. Personally I prefer bush beans, but both have a great harvest and produce throughout the entire growing season.

Anyways. Bean rant over I just really like them and think they need more appreciation so if you make this recipe I want to hear about it!! Pleaseee

[tiffanydaleo]

Sometimes I do things that are not painting!

Pole Beans

[meetinginsamarra]

First Pole Beans

Since I eradicated the slug invasion via chemical warfare and replanted the pole beans, they have grown like mad due to lots of rain and sun.

Yesterday I harvested the first lot that had become big enough (about 25cm approx.) and would soon get mealy if I left them. There are still a lot of smaller ones and a huge amount of blossoms.

This variant (Neckarkönigin/ "Queen of the Neckar") does not develop the annoying filaments that have to be peeled off if you don't like chewing on them.

They get washed and cut into smaller pieces and then I deep freeze them. I used to blanch them but the freezing also works fine without. The plastic bag can contain a three litre volume and two thirds are full.

There will be many more of these bags until the plants die off in late autumn.

[ahedderick]

Pole Beans

MY husband has quite a green thumb for planting seeds. Veggies, flowers, trees, they all grow well for him. What he does not have is any sense at ALL for how harvesting works. Which is how we ended up with this Pole Bean Jungle.

This is supposed to be five distinct, parallel, 8-foot sections of pole beans climbing 6-foot welded-wire fence. What it actually is is a sprawling mess of bean vines grabbing onto anything that comes near them, including other bean vines. They have colonized the outer garden fence, and grown into arching mock-pergolas. Getting IN THERE to pick is ridiculous. There could be jaguars or howler monkeys in there.

Spotting the actual green beans amidst the overenthusiastic foliage is a near impossibility. If I was looking for a shady spot to sit outside and read a book, this would be ideal.

I have a bucket of beans in the fridge. A few days hence I will pick another bucket, and do some canning.

[petula-xx]

Some of my Yellow Cherokee Wax BUSH beans have decided to become POLE beans instead and start climbing up structures.

I didn't know that bush beans were capable of this kind of rebellion.