Phaselous Vulgaris Pole beans, bush beans, green beans, snap beans, shelling beans, horticultural beans, field beans, flageolets and many more names, each name a unique variation of the great genetic diversity that is called botanically Phaselous vulgaris. This bean is native to the New World and has been a vital agricultural crop here for at least 2000 years. The flowers tendency to inbreeding and ease of saving and transporting seed has preserved the many different forms of beans that have arisen through cultivation and selection.
Most beans are easy to grow in any good garden soil.
In a garden rotation, they can do well following winter brassicas or leaf crops or root crops left over winter that were moderately fertilized or manured. The beans do demand a neutral soil with available calcium. If lime was not added in the fall do so in the spring. Most beans, and in particular green beans, require adequate summer moisture to ensure an abundant harvest but some bush dry beans and horticultural beans can be watered less or dry farmed if adequate soil preparation has been taken.