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You should be fine growing beans in the same place as long as they are not diseased. If you have a disease problem dig out a trench and fill it with compost or make a traditional bean trench and throw in all your kitchen waste, garden waste etc and grow them in that. Beans love that sort of thing so you could do it anyway.
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― Thomas A. Edison
�I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."
― Thomas A. Edison
�Negative results are just what I want. They�re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don�t.�
― Thomas A. Edison
You should be fine growing beans in the same place as long as they are not diseased. If you have a disease problem dig out a trench and fill it with compost or make a traditional bean trench and throw in all your kitchen waste, garden waste etc and grow them in that. Beans love that sort of thing so you could do it anyway.
Nick The Grief once told me how he made a perennial bean trench. Similar idea to yours with concreted in posts at the ends.Before adding the kitchen waste to the trench though,, line it with plastic with holes punctured in it.Doesn't matter what colour plastic as it won't be seem so cllear polythene,feretiliser bags,bin bags etc are all ok. At the end of the bean growing season, lift the plastic with the compost and soil and dump it on another part of the plot where you won't be growing legumes. Lay the plastic back down and start filling the trench again.
No rotation problems as you are using a new growing medium every year.
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Some first-rate ideas there folks.... Hopefully I'll be able to get DH to construct me a sturdy-structure for next years runners, along the lines of something here...
It'll have to be something not too wide as space is an issue ...
Liking the idea of self-perpetuating runners, too!
The frame I bought has been awful, shall know not to use coated plastic frames and netting ....aaaarrrggh ~ just what on earth was I thinking....???
One lively gust of wind and it was 'bye-bye bean frame'..!!!
~~~ Gardening is medicine that does not need
a prescription ... And with no limit on dosage.
- Author Unknown ~~~
Thanks for that VC - the Show us your frames post number 9 is what I was trying to describe - great minds must think alike, either that or idiots get the same ideas.
Like your terraced bean frames - having to bend down to pick climbing beans
�I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."
― Thomas A. Edison
�Negative results are just what I want. They�re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don�t.�
― Thomas A. Edison
I always find the more rickety the frame the better it lasts in the wind. They sway and creak and moan but still stay upright somehow.
Sounds like me coming back from the pub !
Jimmy
Expect the worst in life and you will probably have under estimated!
I always find the more rickety the frame the better it lasts in the wind. They sway and creak and moan but still stay upright somehow.
Sounds like me coming back from the pub !
Jimmy
Ha! Lol! You've just given a perfect description of ----------------ME ......
~~~ Gardening is medicine that does not need
a prescription ... And with no limit on dosage.
- Author Unknown ~~~
OH is a keen cyclist so have lots of old wheels. His suggestion which I think might work is this;
Strip the hub out of the middle & get rid of some of the spokes on one of two wheels. On the other get rid of everything except the outer wheel.
Put the outer wheel on the ground & pin down. Hammer a tall sturdy pole in the ground (can get cheap from local farmers co-op)
Fix the first wheel still with spokes on top of the pole. Run bailer twine from outside of top wheel to lower wheel.
Hey presto, a perfectly vertical round runner bean support! )
�I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."
― Thomas A. Edison
�Negative results are just what I want. They�re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don�t.�
― Thomas A. Edison
Basically what we were thinking, except we're going for taller & stronger. Bit of an odd shaped veg plot so will fit in nicely. Also thought for runners not peas as they'll climb nicely around the bailer twine rather than peas which like to scramble!
Saying that, could look quite good in flower bed covered in sweet peas...
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