Growing Pole Beans
July 8, 2009 by Doug
Filed under Vegetables, Video
Here is my fast, quick and easy trellis system for growing pole beans. A few things to note – the first is that you can grow multiple varieties of beans in one location – they don’t really cross-pollinate that easily.
The second is that while we normally use a tripod for this pole bean trellis – in the example here we’ve actually used 4 poles. The trial is to see if it resists the strong island winds better than our normal 3-pole system or whether we have to move the area to more protected spot (we lost a few trellis systems blown over in a late summer storm last year).
Love that top bean photo! I like the idea of pole beans — and their great flavor — but I almost always grow bush types. Force of habit, I guess.
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Hey Judy – not only can you eat this plant, it forms a great annual hedge or screen and has super flowers. I saw a trial at Montreal Botanic Gardens a few years ago that had some spectacular bloomers. Good all round plant