Grow one thing well with Jennie Ramage

Sunday, 16 November 2025 - 10:00am to 10:30am
Growing green beans in Melbourne

Jennie Ramage grows fresh food in her backyard in Ivanhoe and comes from a family tradition of food gardening. She has recently given a workshop on growing green beans in which she advocates learning to grow one type of vegetable well as a novice backyard gardener. In this episode, she describes her methods of growing green beans and obtaining a yield of 400g of beans daily for 3 weeks in the summer. That's a lot of beans!

In her article on the Local Food Connect website Jennie explains the whole process and also gives her favourite recipe - green bean and almond salad. 

Read all about it here:

https://localfoodconnect.org.au/community-gardening/growing-green-beans/