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My bean arbor

6/2/2013

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Last weekend (Memorial Day Weekend), I built my bean arbor and planted some blue lake pole beans.  I saw a picture of an arbor similar to this last year and fell in love with the idea.  Now, I cannot find the original pictures I saw, so unfortunately I cannot give credit to the person who built it, nor can I compare mine to theirs.  I built mine based solely on what I remember that one looking like, but by golly, I think mine will work.
I started by driving a short (approximately 12-14 inch long) piece of rebar about halfway into the ground.  I slid one end of the pvc pipe over the end of the rebar and then carefully bent the pipe in an arch to see how tall I could make the arch without putting the pvc in too much of a bind.  I marked the spot on the ground and drove a second piece of rebar in, and slid the other end of the pipe onto that piece of rebar.  Then I measured out how long I wanted the arbor to be (this one happens to be 7 feet, but it's really your choice) and arched a second piece of pvc in the same manner as the first. Next, I used some scrap hay string and lashed a 1 inch square wooden stake (purely because that's what I had on hand) to the top of each pvc arch, near the center (see the bottom right photo below).  Finally, I stretched plastic bird netting across the whole structure to form a tunnel of sorts, and wove more hay string through the netting and around the pvc (again, see the bottom right photo below).  Down the center of the tunnel, I layered empty feed bags and covered them with straw, to help keep the weeds down.  I planted my beans down each side of the arbor, for 14 total feet of planted beans.  
Today I noticed that all of my beans have sprouted!  We have had steady, gentle rain all day today, which I'm sure helped a great deal, because the beans are 2 inches tall already.  Once they begin to climb the arbor, I will take more photos to share with you.  Have you ever grown pole beans on an arbor like this?  What is your favorite trellis design for pole beans and why?

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