I didn’t have much outdoor space for growing food this year but I spotted these two self-seeded young trees and got the idea of using them as bean trellises: It’s a bit difficult the see the bean plants climbing up the stems, but you can tell that there’s a bean plant in there somewhere because
If you want to grow climbing beans or cucumbers this year you might want to check out my ebook about trellises, that I’m giving away for free. It’s 22 pages with a lot of pictures to get ideas from – just check out the right sidebar to find the sign up form. In case you’re
Just a quick note to tell you about my new ebook called Bean Trellis Tips that I’ll give you for free if you sign up for my email newsletter: The sign-up form is located in the right sidebar under the heading “Subscribe to email newsletter”. Since I started sending out the newsletter I have only
I came out yesterday and found more of my corn plants loosing the battle against the heavy wind we are experiencing at the moment around here. The meteorologists say it’s not unusual at this time of the year but I’m noticing the wind because it’s damaging many of my plants, especially since I was convinced
I took a week of vacation last week away from home and the garden. I was a bit worried what would happen if my garden was left by itself at the peak of the season. The weather turned out to be windy and wet (and so did my vacation 🙁 ), and below is a
I have 6 runner bean plants in my garden this year, climbing up bamboo sticks. I’ve checked all 6 six of them to be sure, but pictures of the three of them is enough for what I want to show you: Notice which direction they all turn around the bamboo stick? Counter-clockwise. This is good
Last time I wrote about building a good bean trellis I only posted a drawing. Now I took the time to actually build it as you can see in these pictures. Each bean plant has its own bamboo stick to climb. Hopefully the beans will hang down on the outside of the construction because the
It sure is an easy way to build a trellis for beans. You just put a stick horizontally in the top and tie everything together in the joints. You let each of the 10 plants run up each bamboo stick and it will soon look like this: The problem is that the beans are hanging
The beans are growing like crazy now. There are beans to be harvested every three days, both runners and the smaller ones. The trellis is made from nine bamboo sticks held together with plastic ties (yes I know – it’s not a very sustainable lifestyle with all that plastic 😉 ). I have an earlier
Beans and peas like to have something to hang onto and some beans will climb up to 3 metres (10 feet) upwards if you let them. I put together 10 bamboo sticks each 2 meters (7 feet) long. For the peas I cut up some wire fence that is 50 cm (20 inches) high for
