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The beans and the giants somehow remained completely secret, even unknown to the likes of the Blue Fairy and flip-flopping Rumplestiltskin.

Flashforward to "the Queen of Hearts", Hook and Cora have grown some beans with Lake Nostos (maybe stuffed them with Anton or something), then by "Tiny", Anton started replanting beans somehow. Within around 6 episodes maybe, an entire field of them are grown (I guess Storybrooke allows for better bean growth or something... probably better than thes sky's 100 year waiting time, plus magical aid). However, in a deleted scene in 4A, Emma tells the Frozen gang that there won't be any beans until next spring (not sure why since in season two they grew pretty fast so let's just go with it was Ingrid's brief winter that stopped growth). Basically, they were able to grow them again and Anton was actually going to share.

Plus, three seasons later plus a who-knows-how-long time jump should have been ample time for plenty of magic beans to grow.