[Market-farming] Pole bean trellising

Heirloom Grower heirloomgrower at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 18:00:04 EDT 2009


My husband made a permanent trellis for me using pieces of hat channel left
over from a construction job. Not sure how expensive these are, but they are
extremely stable. It is probably 7 feet tall, with the four uprights buried
a foot or so deep. Additional pieces are fastened securely across the top.
The first year, I grew tomatoes supported with baling twine on them. The
next year, some beans. This year, I have some snow peas planted there. I use
the baling twine for training, but the configuration depends on what I am
growing there. The basic structure is very, very sturdy, and I am hoping to
have several more constructed this year.

Elise

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Ken Bezilla <kenbez at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone have a pole bean trellis method that they're happy with?
>
> For small plantings, I've used 5' tall concrete reinforcing wire clipped to
> 8' t-posts, spacing the t-posts every 8-10', then run twine across the top
> of the t-posts to give the vines an extra foot or two to climb up.  It's
> very stable, but a high-cost investment, moreso now with steel prices being
> so high.
>
> For larger plantings, we use 6' t-posts to reinforce 8' tall 2"x2" posts,
> spacing the posts 8-10' apart, and use Hortonova netting between the posts.
> The materials are cheaper... but we've had trouble with the posts falling
> over in September when the trellis is heavy with vines and there's a heavy
> windstorm... or the netting slipping off the posts and collapsing to the
> ground.  We're able to re-use the netting if we roll up the netting to sit
> around all winter, then strip the vines off in the spring once they're
> thoroughly dried.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Ken Bezilla
> Acorn Community Farm
> central VA
>
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