peek0703... wrote:
On Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 11:26:04 AM UTC-4, Terry Coombs wrote:
Â* I'll be planting some of the white greasy beans songbird sent me (as
well as a bush variety), and am wondering about trellis requirements . I
have a few feet of 6x6" welded concrete re-wire , will that work OK ? I
read that these can get over 7 feet tall , and that's why I ask . I've
been using tomato cages made from this stuff for a few years now , works
great for them . Field peas like it too , but tend to crowd out the
'maters . I guess I could cut the re-wire in 7 foot lengths and stand
them up on end ... one consideration is blocking sun from other stuff -
I haven't made any decisions yet for exact planting layout except
tomatoes , strawberries , and salad stuff .
Hello bird and others, I'm finally back. Had some surgery that didn't produce the expected results, left me confined to a wheel chair. All the gardening I do anymore is in my mind.
awww drats! sorry that didn't go well. but am glad to hear
from you here (and via e-mail if you want to write anytime).
You are correct about the greasy beans, they climb like crazy. I used to use a woven wire trellis set to 6'. The beans would climb to the top and either fall down and reclimb or become a woven tangle between rows (the shade is nice in hot weather). I've had to crawl between rows to pick.
last season i had a very promising looking crop on the
fence:
http://www.anthive.com/img/beans/thm..._Beans_thm.jpg
but it actually didn't do well as we had a pretty long
drought and i must not have gotten enough water to them.
the pods looked full, but the beans inside were not
fully developed and i didn't know it until harvest time
when shelling how it went. i was hoping for a total
bean crop of between 50-100lbs and had about 20 lbs.
my general bean page for the website is:
http://www.anthive.com/project/beans/
trying to be patient waiting for the next growing season
to start off. projects planned. still freezing here over-
night. as usual will not be planting much of anything until
May towards the middle and end and into early June.
songbird