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I have just read an article on differing types of bean poles ( a real thriller I know) and one suggestion was filling overflow pipe with sand and using that. The argument being it doesn't rot or harbour pests, does anyone do similar?
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Sounds like a lot of potch - and expense. How would you fill the pipe with sand?
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You would need a narrow funnel & fine sand.sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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Could you cork the ends and fill them with water?Comment
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Not just me being a sceptic then, I also wondered if the beans would be able to climb effectively. Maybe we need the vines very own mythbusters teamComment
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Homegrown bamboo, hazel or willow for me
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I just made one from a chimney sweep pole.
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Mine has iron from a bed frame for uprights, old fishing rods for the horizontal then canes for the beans to grow up.Location....East Midlands.Comment
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Just good old bamboo for me, if stored out the ground over winter they keep for years and I only have to replace a few every now and again due to breakages but that's more from the ones I use to support the pea mesh than from the ones for the beans.
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