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I'm trying to grow pole beans because they are my favorite vegetable, but don't know what to do with the vines. I have maybe 60" / 150cm of trellis, I could let them reach the top then make them start growing downward, or I could cut off the growing tip at some point and make them branch at the lower nodes so they became bushy. Has anyone tried these approaches?

HB
If someone sues a parsley farmer, can they garnish his wages?

I just keep wrapping them around everything else - they grow along a length of wire quite well. Bushy works well too - but is more prone to insect attack.

I just let them grow up the fence. Then the dog eats them and pull the plants out.

Rofl

Gee I know that feeling... my gbs are protected by concrete reo now...
makes it a pain to harvest, cos I haven't invested in hinges yet.

Hey you Aussies, I'm up here at the top of the world in the Far Frozen Tundra (just kidding). But it is getting toward winter here and these beans are indoors. Outdoors I have no dogs to snarf down my vegetables, but I do have deer and have to put fences around everything I grow. I also have voles that nip off the pole bean vines at the ground, and rabbits that will also eat plants. But outdoors the beans can get as tall as they want.

Indoors the happy little pole bean plants can climb safely with lots of bubbling water ebbing and flowing but they are going to hit the top of the trellis soon and I will find out just how vigorous AP vegetables are.... But anyway because of the height of the GB after getting it above the FT the growing height is very limited. I guess I could experiment and let some vines go up and down and pinch off the tips of others to see which yield better.

Some people have indoor systems, I don't know if they try stuff like pole beans. I wanted to grow something I like that I can't get in the grocery store. But I'm also going to grow some lettuce, spinach, mustard and basil, and cucumbers. Maybe some dwarf tomatoes.

HB

Nothing like out-witting the winter and growing fresh veg. Be interested to see how your beans do HB.

One of the best things I have grown so far...

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A very successful Ap crop.

Really nice OBO!

Green with envy, OBO! But they look very yummy. What variety do you grow? I like heirloom beans- Uncle Steve's, Grandma Robert's Purple Pole, etc.

HB

Purple climbing, and green climbing:


Beautiful blemish free beans.

Lovely beans, OBO. My outdoor bean season was lousy this year so I'm motivated to try indoors. My squash season was great though, but squash vines take up a lot of room- too much for indoors, I think...

HB