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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Pole bean supports
  • Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:17:02 -0400

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 04:23:01 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>
>Since I rotate my beans, I can't justify building
>anything on a permanent basis, and teepees made from
>saplings don't especially seem all that effective a
>use of space. Any brilliant ideas out there?

Here's what we did. This is the first year we've had this
set-up, so I cannot tell how well it will work.

We hung netting from 8' tall metal fence posts.

The row with the netting is divided into four sections: one
section each for peas, green beans, cukes, cover crop - then
repeat. This should be sufficient rotation.

I don't know how well this would work on a larger scale - we
have it along the north side of our garden, and it's enough
space for each of those crops for our purposes.

Pat
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