bush beans don't end up as bush beans, what to do?
I purchased some Fordhook Lima bean seeds this year. They were supposed to be a bush variety but they are not. I'm not sure what I can set up to support them as I was not planning for this. They are planted in an area that is about 4' by 6'. If anybody has any ideas I would appreciate it.
There was a time I would go out to the Mississippi River and cross the levee to the river side and cut willow branches to use for a cheap trellis framework.
I'd take 3 or 4 of them and stick one end in the ground and tie the tops together like a tepee. With that small an area you'd only need 6-8 of them to make 2 tepees for the beans to crawl up on.
I'd take 3 or 4 of them and stick one end in the ground and tie the tops together like a tepee. With that small an area you'd only need 6-8 of them to make 2 tepees for the beans to crawl up on.
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Yep! Bean poles from willow shoots work great if you have a place you can cut them. If not, go to a lumber supply store and buy a bundle of furring strips. They are 1x2 pine boards. You can sharpen one end with a hatchet and push them in the ground and tie the tops of 4 to make tee pees.
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That picture looks exactly like my garden about 10 years ago, before I put in a trellis of lumber and hog wire.jal_ut wrote:Yep! Bean poles from willow shoots work great if you have a place you can cut them. If not, go to a lumber supply store and buy a bundle of furring strips. They are 1x2 pine boards. You can sharpen one end with a hatchet and push them in the ground and tie the tops of 4 to make tee pees.
[img]https://donce.lofthouse.com/jamaica/pole_beans.jpg[/img]
Just like it---------well, with the exception of not having at least 4 neighbors houses, fences, banana trees and those huge lumps coming from the ground in the background of the picture over the tops of the beans.
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