Bean Support idea

[veggiechicken]

Ah but what about frenchies? Can they be sown in the same place each year.

Anyway, the runners didn't grow back this year or last year (on a different plot). Maybe Newcastle isn't as tropical as Swansea.

Haven't tried it with French beans - but will be this year, and Broad beans

As for the weather here, its always sunshiny wherever I am

[Penellype]

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.

[Jay-ell]

Just realised how expensive it's going to be to make the green bean house frames

essential item needed

May have to lower the path a tad.

[veggiechicken]

Looks like there's a Bat flying overhead.............seems appropriate that you would want something Batty

[Jay-ell]

Looks like there's a Bat flying overhead.............seems appropriate that you would want something Batty

Ah but I wouldn't need the bat as there would be a canopy of bean leaves

[Snadger]

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.

[SusieG]

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'..!!!

[veggiechicken]

Susie - more ideas at
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...mes_70103.html

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...mes_58608.html

[Jay-ell]

Susie - more ideas at
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...mes_70103.html

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...mes_58608.html

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

[Jimmy]

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

[SusieG]

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 ......

[happyhumph]

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! )

[Jay-ell]

Nice idea - quick Google now I know what I'm looking for turned up this

Recycled Bike Wheel Garden Trellis

[happyhumph]

There we were thinking we were original

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...

[Bigmallly]

Why waste time removing spokes when you can fasten the twine to them................