Garden

Today, when fresh, canned, and frozen vegetables are plentiful and taken for granted, the home vegetable garden is regarded as something between a hobby and a luxury. But before the days of modern supermarkets the household vegetable garden an engine that helped many rural families pull through tough economic times. Green beans are a popular plant among home vegetable gardeners. The most commonly grown beans are the green, or snap, bean and the yellow, or wax, bean, which is a variety of the green bean. Pole beans grow 6 to 8 feet tall and require a trellis for support. They grow more slowly but produce more beans per plant.

These photos are of Pappa and Mammie Hanes in what look to be pole beans. An interesting note is that the photo of Mammy Hanes I found at Pat’s house in Loberta’s photos and the photo of Pappa was in the photos Deamer let me scan but they look to have been taken the same day.