How Do You Make A Trellis For Pole Beans?
Pole beans grow best on a trellis or on poles. If pole beans were left to grow along the ground, it would be impossible to harvest the beans without damaging the plants. Giving pole beans support also allows air circulation around the plants and helps prevent disease. Building a trellis is easier with beans because they wind around whatever structure they cling to, unlike vegetables such as cucumbers, which grab on to structures using tendrils. Prepare the garden bed for planting beans in an area of the garden protected from high winds and with a north-south orientation. The reason that a north-south orientation is important is because air moves north and south more often than east-west and creates air movement around the pole beans and helps prevent diseases. Most seed packets provide enough seeds for a 20- to 30-foot row, so you need two packets for this project. Make pole bean beds 4-6 feet wide. Build the trellis before planting the beans. Take 16 of the 8-foot poles and make two r
