Gardener Shares How One Unbelievable Plant Provides Year’s Worth of Food: ‘Will Keep Like This for Years’

The Puerto Rican black bean is a type of climbing bean — they’ll need trellises to support their long, vining growth. With plenty of sunlight and well-draining soil, the plant will produce a ton of black beans.

This one plant can produce a year’s worth of vegetables — here’s how.

The scoop

Want to enjoy legumes for the rest of your life? Just plant this Puerto Rican pole bean in your garden. TikToker and gardener Homegrown Florida (@homegrownflorida) shared how she harvested a year’s worth of crop from a single plant.

“[This] is a Puerto Rican black bean,” she says. “So the way that these grow is you start with this vining plant – this is just one plant, it gets very large, it gets very big – and it produces a crazy amount of beans.”