How Do You Build Green Bean Support?
Bush beans grow only 1 or 2 feet tall and support themselves, but pole beans may reach 6 feet or more and need a support to climb. In return for your effort in setting up poles and wires, you’ll be able to pick green beans from midsummer to frost, long after bush beans’ main crop is over. For a few plants, you can erect a tripod of poles and grow one or two bean plants up each leg. For a long row of pole beans, erecting a trellis may be more efficient. Set 8-foot-long poles in the ground at each end of the row and spaced every 8 feet along the row. Bury them 1 to 2 feet deep. Pound them into soft soil with a sledgehammer, or if the soil is hard, dig holes with a shovel or post-hole digger, set the poles in them and tamp dirt around them. Pound a stake in the ground 3 feet beyond the end of the row, and wrap one end of a roll of galvanized fence wire around it. Secure the wire to the stake by twisting the ends together with pliers. Run the wire up to the top of the pole at the end of th
