New Idea for Runner Bean Frame

You'll only make a fortune if its cheap to produce and made out of plastic:lollol:

 

And can be manufactured in China :hehe:

 

If you made a V shape design with long canes, and secured string across the top on a zig zag pattern that would secure it, surely?

 

What a brilliant idea.:thumb:

As for the slugs, I went out this morning, to discover that the deer had eaten some of the potatoes!! I'll swap your slugs for the deer.

 

My Dad drove some old scaffold poles into the ground at each end of his rows and ran some stout wires between them, top and bottom - he then grew his beans up strings which were tied onto the wire. When it came to picking, he merely slid each piece of string (with it's plant attached) along the wire a few inches in order to reach the beans. Never having really thought about it, I always favoured the 'traditional' /\ method and for years sent my small daughters along inside the rows!

 

Watch this space..

I've just come up with the simplest of designs, which can be constructed in panel sizes from tile batten, used either way around \/ or /\ is completely free standing, and can be folded up and put away in the winter, and erected again in seconds. I can't beleive how easy it was to think up.

 

ooh i could trial it for you

what about a sweet pea version as well

good luck

loopy

 

Digressing..

Many years ago an aunt was given some greenwood poles to support her runner beans. So she put them in the ground in the traditional arrangement. But the poles started sprouting leaves before there was any sign of the beans appearing.
So she pulled them all out, stript off the shoots from the poles and replaced them after inverting them back into her plot.

Guess what?

The poles started sprouting again!

 

I did my bean poles yesterday - and I am SO pleased with them.

I did them in the A frame format, but I have one side for support and one side with all my canes on. On the side nearest the house I have three canes, one at each end and one in the middle - they join a cane on the other side to make three supportive A's. Then the long cane across the top. On the other side I have all my canes, so effectively I have clear access to get in and pick them and they should hang inside the canes. It's great - bit like a simplified Munty Frame.