You’ll need:
bean seeds
a bowl of water soil (on the ground or in a plant pot)
a trellis (if you are growing pole beans)
Instructions
Decide what type of beans you want to harvest from your garden (fresh beans or dry beans).
Decide whether you want to grow bush beans or pole beans. Pole beans need a trellis to climb.
Wait until after the last frost in spring.
Soak your bean seeds overnight.
Plant about an inch deep and 2-4 inches apart in a row.
Keep the soil evenly moist during germination.
If you are growing fresh beans, harvest when beans are 5-6 inches long, but before they develop lumps where the seeds are. Keep harvesting and the plants will keep producing.
If you are growing dry beans or if you want to save your bean seeds, leave the bean pods on the plants, let them keep growing and let the pods dry on the plant before harvesting. You will harvest fewer beans because harvesting them causes the plant to produce more bean pods.