Show us your Bean and Pea frames 2017-2019

[Bigmallly]

I was toying around with climbing squashes as it is a strong frame..........I like the mesh idea, maybe chicken wire would work.

[Cadalot]

Big Guy is that a Gnome with a stick up his rear end that I spy in the photo?

[Bigmallly]

Close Cad, it's up his foot.......................

[1Bee]

Bigmal, I could never get tired of that frame.... I just about drool at it! Have you got any pics of it fully clad, as it were?

I've been and bought some jute netting for mine... mostly because pea and bean netting is the work of the devil.

[Small pumpkin]

One bit of advice if you do Jas............I found the frames a little bit large to be growing beans round so put strings in between. These will be used for the Beans...........I may grow something that can be tied to the frame but unsure of what just yet...........maybe someone could give me some ideas.

You've already come up with the idea yourself but squash, pumpkin and Tromboncino

I was toying around with climbing squashes as it is a strong frame..........I like the mesh idea, maybe chicken wire would work.

Personally I'd go with stock netting


It's a bit stronger and bigger gaps for things to grow through.

[veggiechicken]

I'm not convinced about wire netting on the roof as it would be a beggar to clear at the end of the season and, any bean pods that didn't fall through the holes would be inaccessible.

[Penellype]

I wish I had space for a frame like yours BM. I'd be growing tomatoes up it, but then I can never have too many tomatoes.

Nothing doing for the beans yet - their pots are currently occupied by spinach.

Peas:

Meteor



32 peas sown in rootrainers, but only about 10 germinated. Another green circular support will be added when the plants get taller.

Meteor



1m of peas = 10 pots of 5, although only about half germinated. The plants in front are beetroot.

Hurst Green Shaft (planted today)



1m of peas = 10 pots of 5, most germinated. The plan is to add another 1m row of Hurst GS in front of this one. I'll then be growing 2 buckets of Terrain or Geisha (or one of each) in a similar way to the bucket of Meteor, as soon as I have space for the buckets (July, probably).

[Jay-ell]

I've some of the stock fencing mesh (similar to the one SP shown) I was keeping aside for this as well as some 5cm x 10cm hole fence mesh left over from the front fence. Should have just about enough to do it. It won't be entirely covered but enough for a decent sprawl area to shade the area underneath which will have a couple of chairs and possibly a table.


But first I have to clear out all the junk in the houses, remove the shattered glass, clean up the shards from the soil and possibly take up some of the slabs inside (although I could just plant on the outside) (a reminder of the state of the houses at the mo - I haven't done much on them yet)

[Lumpy]

For some of us very small space growers heres one of mine.

I will have 4 eventually when I get round to it. These are for runner bean Polestar and I don't grow peas except for sugar snaps (which are in the wall baskets cuddled up with radish.

[lottie dolly]

I have used chicken wire in the past for growing peas up,works good,i weave canes down it and push them in the ground,still got the wire ready for when i got time to do peas again.

[vixylix]

Fab idea LD - I may just pinch that!

[Jay-ell]

For some of us very small space growers heres one of mine.

I will have 4 eventually when I get round to it. These are for runner bean Polestar and I don't grow peas except for sugar snaps (which are in the wall baskets cuddled up with radish.

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Nice and simple. How tall are the canes and are they attached at the top to each other or anything else?

How many beans do you plant per pot?

[Finley]

I have some more sensible constructions of giant canes - but I made this today out of tree trimmings and bits of hazel. It ain't pretty.. but I hope it's fairly secure! It'll look fine once the sweet peas grow. If they do grow. They're inside the plastic bottles having (I hope) a mini greenhouse experience

[Bren In Pots]

Here's my tall pea frame I won it in a vine prize draw in 2012.

[Cadalot]

As my daughter was home work late last night I knew she would be in bed this morning for a while so I went down to plot 23B and gathered the timber roofing battens to make the gallows brackets for plot 1A to replace the broken bamboo cantilever bracket



So here is the template that I have come up with, another four to cut, drill and then paint them all ready for taking down to Plot 1A on Sunday Morning to be fixed to the existing hanging basket brackets that are on the wall. I may then add some additional steel angles to fix the vertical timber to the wall at the top and bottom.