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Bean stalks are highly productive. Get the right varieties growing with this selection of plants of the Fabaceae family.

Borlotti Beans Braised with Tomato, Sage and Garlic Crumbs

 Rustic bowl of pinkish-tan borlotti beans in glossy brick-red tomato broth over charred sourdough, scattered with golden breadcrumbs, crisp sage leaves and grated pecorino

A small patch of green

 Balcony with blue shutters and many plants

Cross-pollination, when genes mix to breed new plants

 What is cross-pollination

Spring sowing and planting

 Row of onion and strawberry plants

Lentil, from seed to harvest

 Lentil plants growing in a vegetable patch, with pods ready for the harvest

Broad beans, easy and quick to grow

 Opening a fresh broad bean

Broad bean health benefits and therapeutic value

 Broad bean health benefits

Garden with your kids

 Grandfather unearthing a potato with a grandchild

Saving heirloom vegetables… right in your own garden!

 Defend heirloom varieties

Sowing and transplant calendar for the vegetable patch

 Vegetable sowing in a tray according to calendar

Rotate crops in the vegetable patch

 Crop rotation in a vegetable patch

Permaculture fertilizers and compost

 Permaculture gardens require fertilizer and compost

Container pea, how to grow green peas in containers

 How to grow green peas in pots

Peas and green peas, growing them from seed to harvest

 Pea growing

Lentil health benefits and therapeutic value

 Health benefits of lentil

Plant Snow pea for refreshing meals and snacks!

 Snow pea

Bean health benefits and therapeutic value

 Three beans sprouting in an open pod

The legume family, perfect for the garden and the dinner table, too!

 Legume family benefits in home and garden

How to grow beans in 3 minutes

Growing vegetables on your balcony, give it a try!

 Tomato plant on a balcony with fruits ripening

No-treat vegetable patch: easy peasy

 Easy growing for vegetables without even treating

An effortless veggie garden

 Vegetable patch with no maintenance

25 Vegetables that resist drought and dry spells

 Drought-resistant vegetables

Bean blight, 7 diseases that cause spots and wilting on beans

 Bean blight

6 steps to start a vegetable patch. No more, no less!

 Steps to start a vegetable patch

Companion planting in the vegetable patch

 Raised beds with companion planting

Spring sowing and planting in the vegetable patch

 Rows of lettuce and radish sowed and planted in a spring vegetables patch.

Beans, all the tips on how to grow them

 Growing beans