But plant breeding reduced the fibers, and now the beans are known as snap beans.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

I like to make a lot of stews in the winter that you can like then freeze, or beans and things like that, soups.

冬天我喜欢炖汤，比如你可以，把它冷冻起来，或者用大豆之类的东西做汤。

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Also,because the plants are tall, a person can stand while harvesting the beans.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

But beans are used to describe something of very little value in the expression, not worth a hill of beans.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

Plant pole beans ten to fifteen centimeters apart along rows, and leave about eighty to ninety centimeters of room between the rows.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

The University of Illinois Extension service says you should harvest beans when the pods are firm and have reached their full length.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Green bush beans used to be called string beans because of fibers along the pods containing the seeds.

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This is because diseases that infect beans can stay in the soil and infect the next bean crop.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Farmers in the Philippines are showing new interest in crops like winged beans,string beans, arrowroot and cassava.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

We slept on the hard ground, ate canned beans from cold metal plates and spent our days in the difficult search for gold.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

Picking beans from wet plants can spread bean bacterial blight, a disease that damages the plants.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Visitors are enjoying crawfish etouffees, red beans and rice,gumbo,jambalaya and the famous fried pastries called beignets.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

Native American tribes once grew vegetables like beans and corn throughout the Chesapeake coastal plain.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Other plants take nitrogen out of the soil, but beans and other legumes replace it.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Bean plants produce more beans if pods are continually removed before the seeds are mature.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Beans should not be planted until all risk of freeze has passed in the spring.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Not only are beans a healthy food, they are also good for the soil.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Beans baked in molasses, a sugar product, became a favorite food in the city.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

The World Cocoa Foundation says an average pod contains twenty to fifty beans.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

Experts say good choices for the garden include tomatoes, peppers,beans and okra.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

Beans should be moved to different areas of the garden each year.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

But it was not because the city grew a lot of beans.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

But wait until the plants are completely dry before picking beans.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

He adds that scientists are working with investigators around the world to leverage the investment that went into the soybean for cowpea,chick pea,pigeon pea and other beans.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

To this day in Little Havana, the food, including black beans and rice and frita cubanas - hamburgers of a sort, topped with grated fried potatoes - is Cuban.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19