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Examples of pole bean in a Sentence
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Full sun, at least six to eight hours per day
Green Beans
There are two types of green beans: push and pole beans.
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Katie Boué, Outside Online, 5 Aug. 2024
Both bush beans and pole beans can be grown near carrots, but pole beans need trellising to keep sprawling vines from competing with carrots for light.
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Aug. 2024
Tomatoes, pole beans, cucumbers, and squashes can all be trellised.
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Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 20 June 2024
Good candidates for direct sowing would be bush or pole beans, lettuce and other green leafy vegetables, radishes, peas, carrots, summer and winter squash, cucumbers, and corn.
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Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 6 Apr. 2024
This quick and easy recipe pairs blanched pole beans with snappy radish slices.
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Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2023
Plant bush beans, which mature a little faster than pole beans (which must have support, such as a trellis, to grow vertically).
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 4 Aug. 2023
Both types are fast-growing, though pole beans produce for a slightly longer period.
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 12 May 2023
During the summertime, 'Kentucky Wonder' pole beans scramble up strings attached to a skeleton structure, creating the ideal place to play, hide, or pick beans.
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Rhonda Fleming Hayes, Southern Living, 16 June 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1770, in the meaning defined above
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“Pole bean.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pole%20bean. Accessed 18 Aug. 2024.
Kids Definition
pole bean
noun
: a cultivated bean with long coiling stems that is usually trained to grow upright on supports
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