New Idea for Runner Bean Frame

Here is the, permanent, Runner Bean frame from Helimingham Hall - local stately home with a walled kitchen-garden that must be about 2 acres.

How the other 0.000001% live, eh? :D

 

I started the beans in the greenhouse and only put one per bamboo also i will move the scaffold tubes in the winter to a different area i will take couple a of photos tomorrow

 

Here is my sort of box frame i had great yields last year and its easy to take down and move to another area of the garden.

Each upright TUBE (x4) drops into a plastic downpipe that is in the ground about one foot then the steell tubes drop into the plastic downpips and the cross piece tubes are held on by a scaffold clips the advantage of this is one can plant between the frame not wasting any ground and lettuce etc will come long before the beans i am able to plant 40 beans 20 either side.

 

Forgot to put this photo in sorry about that as you can see the lettuce between the scaffold most of them have gone by still a few left.

 

Hi

Yes i can walk between to collect the beans your idea is good maybe i will try another structure next year will have to get some more tube and errect one like you got.

 

The Helmingham Hall one has quite a lot of space between the uprights. I wonder if they let enough light in that it flowers on the inside? That would look rather nice I think.

They have a massive herbaceous garden alongside the central path through the walled garden. I presume the ladies in crinoline strolling through the garden didn't want to see anything as mundane as vegetables!!

Google Satellite image may give you some idea of scale!

 

We have trouble with the late afternoon sun beating on us in the gazebo so this spring we built our lean-to on the west wall of the gazebo......very like the one beside the greenhouse and we hope it will settle much of our problem.

I like the X plan and will do that with our sugar pea bed.

 

I've put bell cloches over one row (of four) of my Parsnips, Salsify and Scorzonera to see if it makes a difference. They've only been planted a few weeks and, subjectively, I think the ones in the bell cloches are coming on a lot faster.

Might be a way to "spread" a crop but allow sowing / planting more-at-one-time

A bottom-less 2L "pop" bottle would probably do as well. Might try that with some small Lettuce plants I aim to plant this evening ...

 

Found a picture - there are 4 rows, across my 4' bed, and one is "cloched"