pole beans or bush beans

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hmmmm?

[heyjellisy]

I'm usually too lazy to set up the poles (or they are still holding up the peas) so I do bush.

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How do you set up poles?

I have trellis "string" or whatever you call it and wooden dowels. Is it going to take more effort than that? More space?

This is my first real year. Talk to me like I'm two.

Also, I read somewhere that bush beans harvest all at once but pole beans harvest over time?

[heyjellisy]

We harvest our bush beans over time. Pole beans may produce longer but bush beans are not one and done.

The first year I grew pole beans I literally put a big stick at either end of the row, tied a piece of twine across and then tied twine to hang down for the beans to grow up. It worked remarkably well - it was a little unstable at first, but once the beans grew big, it was fine.. Now I have bamboo poles that I make teepees out of - three poles tied with twine at the top. and plant four beans around each leg. I switched when I moved to square foot gardening since I wasn't planting a full row anymore. Either way works just fine with pole beans.

[NitaX]

I'm doing bush beans because I don't feel like having to trellis more plants. Signed, lazy gardener

[dirtyred]

I do pole beans--more beans for my buck.

I bought some jute netting from Gardeners Supply for $15 and strung it between two plant stakes. I got about a mile of this stuff and only used 10 feet, so I'll be doing it this way for years.

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ah okay. I still have plenty of trellis net left and I like the idea of pole beans better. I just wanted to make sure I didn't have to truss up some giant burning man looking dealio that would take 87 yards of space lol

[ringstrue]

I'm doing pole.

the school I work at has a garden so I got a "preview" of how they do it. They do them sort like this but with a center pole that's about 6-7ft high.



They grow taller than that even but it didn't matter it terms of fruit production, I guess.

[heavenly]

May 18, 2012 13:28:53 GMT -5 ringstrue said:

I'm doing pole.

the school I work at has a garden so I got a "preview" of how they do it. They do them sort like this but with a center pole that's about 6-7ft high.



They grow taller than that even but it didn't matter it terms of fruit production, I guess.

This is what I have, though the poles are more closer together so it fit in a smaller space and that I can walk all the way around it if needed. I use wood sticks and tie the top part of the sticks together. DS is 20 months so this method is the best for us as it will be easier for me to teach him what to pull and not pull from the plant.

[mouse]

This will be our first year for pole beans, but for peas I've stuck a tomato cage (the flimsy worthless ones) upside down and bound the top with twine.

[mouse]

Similar to this, but they made it fancy with bamboo:
www.flickr.com/photos/57952836@N08/5662769451/.

(I need to learn how to pip here)

[Knight]

I do bush because I'm lazy. They do harvest over time but it doesn't matter to me because I can anyway.