Call them Asparagus Beans, Yardlong Beans, Pea Beans, Snake Beans, or one of their many regional monikers, I’ve always referred to them as Long Beans. Back in the mid-80’s, in my very first garden, I planted seeds from exotic vegetables I had never had access to in small-town Illinois. One such planting was of Yardlong bean seeds I had ordered from a seed catalog. The plants grew well, I harvested the first few meals of a nutty, densely textured green bean that made your typical green bean seem stringy and bland. Then, in one tragic day, a swarm of bean-eating beetles arrived in my garden, leaving behind only the lacy remnants of long bean leaves that had been devoured.