How to String Pole Beans
Pole beans are also referred to as snap or green beans. Grown for their tender pods and not for the seeds inside, pole beans are picked when still immature. Pole beans are a vine plant and need support to grow a successful crop. If you don't have a trellis to grow them against, creating your own stringing system is a simple alternative. No special building knowledge or supplies are necessary nor is an intricate trellising system needed to string pole beans. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Create hills in rows in a well draining garden bed in full sun. Make each hill approximately 1 to 2 feet wide and 4 inches high. Space hills 3 feet apart.
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Push a 6 to 8 foot high wooden stake into the ground in the center of each hill. Choose a stake roughly 1 inch in diameter.
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Space four beans around the stake at an equal distance apart. Sow the seeds 1 inch deep into the soil.
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Keep the bed moist but not soaking wet. Guide the plants to the stake as necessary once they begin growing, approximately seven days after planting.
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Prune off the top of the bean vines once they grow past the top of the stake. This prevents too-tall vines from breaking.
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Tips & Warnings
Sow bean seeds in spring after all danger of frost has passed.
Begin harvesting beans once they are ready. Continual harvesting encourages further bean production.
Harvest beans in the afternoon when there is no moisture on the pods. Picking wet pods spreads disease.
