snap bean
noun
: a bean grown primarily for its long pods that are cooked as a vegetable while young and tender and before the seeds have become enlarged compare shell bean
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Early plantings include lima bean, snap bean, corn, cucumber, eggplant, pepper, southern pea, rhubarb, squash, and tomato; End of the month crops include broccoli, cabbage, celery, collard, endive, lettuce, mustard, onion, radish, strawberry and turnip 4.
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Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2021
Plant southern peas by seed to harvest as snap beans.
—Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 14 May 2020
Readiness for harvest as green beans (snap beans) relates only to the thickness, or in the case of flat-pod varieties, the width of the pods.
—Pam Peirce, SFChronicle.com, 2 Aug. 2019
They are found on cowpeas, lima beans, snap beans, soybeans in most states east of the Mississippi River as well as parts of Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Texas, and Utah.
—The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 10 July 2018
Get ready for warm-season veggies: Begin planting warm-season vegetables, such as tomatoes and bell peppers (use transplants for these two), cucumbers, corn, snap beans and squash over the next couple of weeks.
—NOLA.com, 3 Mar. 2018
Vegetables: Calabaza, chayote, cherry tomato, collards, dasheen, lima bean, snap bean, Malabar spinach, malanga, New Zealand spinach, okra, hot pepper, roselle, Seminole pumpkin, Southern pea, sweet potato, tamarillo, yam and yard-long bean.
4.
—Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2018
They are found on cowpeas, lima beans, snap beans, soybeans in most states east of the Mississippi River; also parts of Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Texas, Utah.
—The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 3 June 2016
Plant seeds for lima and snap beans, beets, carrots, celery, chard, cucumbers, endive, fennel, jicama, melons, mustard, okra, potatoes, radish, soybeans, spinach, summer and winter squash, turnips and watermelon.
—Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 20 Apr. 2018
Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2021
Plant southern peas by seed to harvest as snap beans.
—Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 14 May 2020
Readiness for harvest as green beans (snap beans) relates only to the thickness, or in the case of flat-pod varieties, the width of the pods.
—Pam Peirce, SFChronicle.com, 2 Aug. 2019
They are found on cowpeas, lima beans, snap beans, soybeans in most states east of the Mississippi River as well as parts of Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Texas, and Utah.
—The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 10 July 2018
Get ready for warm-season veggies: Begin planting warm-season vegetables, such as tomatoes and bell peppers (use transplants for these two), cucumbers, corn, snap beans and squash over the next couple of weeks.
—NOLA.com, 3 Mar. 2018
Vegetables: Calabaza, chayote, cherry tomato, collards, dasheen, lima bean, snap bean, Malabar spinach, malanga, New Zealand spinach, okra, hot pepper, roselle, Seminole pumpkin, Southern pea, sweet potato, tamarillo, yam and yard-long bean.
4.
—Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2018
They are found on cowpeas, lima beans, snap beans, soybeans in most states east of the Mississippi River; also parts of Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Texas, Utah.
—The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 3 June 2016
Plant seeds for lima and snap beans, beets, carrots, celery, chard, cucumbers, endive, fennel, jicama, melons, mustard, okra, potatoes, radish, soybeans, spinach, summer and winter squash, turnips and watermelon.
—Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 20 Apr. 2018
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