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Old 24-04-2006, 10:25 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Bob Hobden
 
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Default Oh dear, new gardeners!


"H Ryder" wrote
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PS - was intending to grow my beans up a wigwam of 6 6 foot canes - is
this
wrong? What shoud I grow them up (runner anfd french).

Not wrong but on an exposed allotment site they will not hold up when they
are grown, wet and it gets windy. We bang in 4x 8ft metal poles across the
plot and then wire solid wooden crossbars to them and then tie the 8ft canes
to those, and still on occasion I have had to put in guy wires as well.
If you grow in an enclosed garden a wigwam would probably be OK.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
17mls W. of London.UK