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I am a newbie planning to plant out some green beans, which I have
already started off in the kitchen (current height is 12 to 18 inches).
Planting out this weekend in Yorks if there is no frost.

Question: I will plant the beans up against wooden fence panels. Will a
few lengths of twine strung laterally across the fence panels be OK for
support? The site is pretty well sheltered from the wind.


Not really. Assuming by green beans you mean either runner or french beans,
they climb by twining themselves round a support rather than by tendrils
like peas. They also get heavy when they're laden with beans. Better would
be to get canes, maybe leaning in to the top of the fence.

Steve