How to grow and harvest green beans?

I am one that likes to raise her own vegetables. As far as green beans are concern we always raise them in our own garden, when i was growing up, and I still raise them now.

Green beans, which is called snap beans can be harvested for their plump pods and they can be harvested for the beans themselves. Green beans comes in varieties of climbing ones and dwarf ones which can be grown in containers.

The climbing varieties is the ones that we have always used in our garden.

Before I plant my seeds, I have to get my ground ready and I do this be putting well-rotted organic matter such as garden compost to my garden space and I will get all of the weeds out of the garden. I take my rake and level it out. I then put my stakes into the ground, where I am going to put my climbing plants to grow. 10 inches apart, and I sow two seeds at the base of each stake 2 inches deep. After I have sow all of my green beans sees, I have to keep them well-watered and keep a lookout for slugs. To keep the slugs away from my green bean plants, I applied a light scattering of pellets. After I see the plants starting to flower, I water them well and I feed them regularly with a balanced liquid fertilizer.

I check my plants every day or tow. and when I see my pods are large enough to pick, then I start picking them right away. I continue to check my green beans, when I am checking my other vegetables, so I can pick them at their best. The more I pick, the more they produce. If I decide that I want to save some seeds fro next year, I will leave a few pods on a plant until it matures fully and I collect the seeds later on.

I remember when I was growing up, we would pick all the produce that was ready and then I would snap our snap beans, shelled our peas and so on.