Plus 22 favorite bush bean varieties!
Bush beans, also called snap beans because they "snap" when ripe, are by far the most popular homegrown beans.They're easy to plant, they don't need any time consuming staking, trellising, or poling because they grow on compact, sturdy plants, they grow well even in poor soil, and have ready-to-eat pods in only seven or eight weeks.
They used to be called "string" beans because of the fibrous string that ran the length of the pods, but now with improved varieties, they are really "stringless " beans!
