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Training climbing vegetables up supports is a great way to get maximum yield from minimum space. Building your own supports is easy, fun and can make an impressive feature in your garden.
If you’re growing climbing peas, beans, cucumbers or any other vining plant, you’ll need to build supports to help them grow skywards. Providing support also means you can pack more sprawling plants such as squashes and melons into your space by training them upwards instead.
In this video we demonstrate how to choose the best supports for your garden and give step-by-step instructions for creating the ultimate pea and bean frame.
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DIY Pea & Bean Supports – How to Make the Best Frames and Trellis for Climbing Vegetables – YouTube. Training climbing vegetables up supports is a great way to get maximum yield from minimum space. Building your own supports is easy, fun and can make an impressive feature in your garden. This is a fantastic video and it shows you our tutorial, with dimensions for making this wonderful bean rack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3kUUx230RE
I've used the "stake & weave" technique promoted by Johnny's but the wooden stakes may be a problem. Since Septoria (and some other diseases) can over winter on wood I'm looking for economical alternatives that stand 2 meters tall. Rebar? Steel fence posts are expensive. Cages work but are very labor intensive to make for 50 plants. Suggestions?
Thank you for the video. I am making it this year. Was looking for something simple and found it here.
Wonderful, informative video's. Very thorough, especially for us new gardeners 🙂
It's very useful vedio
Wow! I just watched the video and I cant wait to make my own supports. You make it look so easy. Thank you.
I made it by myself. I used Woodprix woodworking plans for that.
if you want your frames to last longer than a year or two…
1 – cut the top inch or two from an empty 2 litre pop bottle
2 – stand in the parts that will be buried underground, and support them upright
3 – fill the bottle with creosote or similar treatment for buried wood
4 – let the wood stand in there and soak up the treatment for at least an hour or two – preferably overnight… or longer
5 – remove the frame from the ground after the beans have been harvested and allow to dry
6 – retreat if necessary
7 – enjoy NOT having to cut off the rotten wood every year and avoid your support collapsing mid-season
I like the idea of the frame.
I made it myself. Just go to Woodprix webpage if you'd like do the same
it looks amazing! I'm gonna try this for sure
If you want you can learn from Woodprix woodworking plans how to make it yourself.
You can learn more about it on woodprix website I think.
Thank you…
I'm interested in building this but concerned it might blow over. How sturdy is it buried at 12"?
So pretty!!!!
I made a support for my climbing veggies from a broken rotary clothes dryer
My beloved is making a set of planters on wheels, including one with a frame for climbers, we have a small garden and it means we can move them into the sun and shade as needed and makes them accessible to me on my wheels as well!
Does this work for grapevines
Try to make it with woodprix plans 🙂
I use Stodoys plans for all my joinery. Google and try it out.
What direction did you orient this trellis? Any advice on how to orient tall vegetable arches? Finding conflicting information on whether the arch openings should be E/W or N/S mor maximal sun to the arch as well as the beds besides the arch. Thank you!
Sound like you were recovering from a cold Ben when you made this video.
I can get intimidated by all the new skills to learn. I appreciate how these things are demystified. Very empowering!
Going to do 2 bean supports like these and maybe another the same but have cucumbers on
Thank you
Due to high winds, straight line winds, etc. that we have here thinking perhaps instead of 2 supports in center that 4 corner posts would be better option and maybe secure each corner post additionally with metal T-posts. Likely would have to use cattle-pig fencing or furring strips since bamboo is not readily available plus it is expensive and much too short (intended for smaller indoor potted plants) when it is shipped into gardening centers on rare occasion. But really like the idea and believe could find a way to make it work!