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@Blue-Jay was discussing vining beans and soil management on:
I have started direct sowing early this year bc of our early Spring, although we are looking to dip to 27 degrees F in the next week, frost territory but I am hoping that the five 12 ft rows of sugar snap peas that I planted this last week and yesterday will be ok.
The subject was how @Blue-Jay 's friend uses chain link fencing for his/her? beans and only grows vining beans.
Although I don't like to waste seed, and I Will plant any bush beans that I have, I prefer vining beans for harvesting. One day I plan to create an arch to grow my beans on so that I can who reach up to harvest!
The point is that, IMHO, the smaller the openings in your fencing, the easier it is for your seedlings to latch onto and climb. It's eNOUGH work for me to tie up and prune my tomatoes, which are far fewer.
Consider chicken wire for vining vegetables. It is much cheaper and works, again, IMHO much better.
The livestock fencing that I bought 2 years ago is now 172% of what I paid then. $50 then vs $86 now.
IF you don't need 6', you could buy 50 ft of 48" (4 ft) fencing for $36.
I will admit that I have saved old metal fenceposts to stiffen them.
The soil has been settling down under the chicken wire so it hasn't been sitting in wet mud, therefore less likely to rust. I suggest that you plant your vining vegetable seeds (beans, cucumbers) directly under the fencing to help them.
I am pushing the limits on the north side of my northmost (1/5) fencelines bc I dumped right next to it this winter in the hopes of creating a raised bed (huglekulture) to grow 3 blueberry bushes.
Every blueberry bush I have bought has bitten the dust. Two of them dried out, the one I brought to live inside this winter didn't make it.
I probably have spent close to $100 of these things!
I plan to buy 4 from a box store this Spring or find the Best deal online and plant them in This bed, cage them in and tie a plastic jug with drip holes on the bottom. The handles help to secure them and I can unscrew the tops to fill.
If the three make it, the 4th can go to DD's yard.
We'll see if the chicken wire suffers. If so, I still have used rolls saved in my Carriage House.
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@Blue-Jay , I think we are in for a rainy Spring. So I would say this year our weather here is starting out dry. Back in the 1980's I noticed our weather here was in regards to rainfall swinging back and forth from feast or famine. Since our extremely dry summer of 2012 I've noticed that we get...
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The subject was how @Blue-Jay 's friend uses chain link fencing for his/her? beans and only grows vining beans.
Although I don't like to waste seed, and I Will plant any bush beans that I have, I prefer vining beans for harvesting. One day I plan to create an arch to grow my beans on so that I can who reach up to harvest!
The point is that, IMHO, the smaller the openings in your fencing, the easier it is for your seedlings to latch onto and climb. It's eNOUGH work for me to tie up and prune my tomatoes, which are far fewer.
Consider chicken wire for vining vegetables. It is much cheaper and works, again, IMHO much better.
The livestock fencing that I bought 2 years ago is now 172% of what I paid then. $50 then vs $86 now.
IF you don't need 6', you could buy 50 ft of 48" (4 ft) fencing for $36.
I will admit that I have saved old metal fenceposts to stiffen them.
The soil has been settling down under the chicken wire so it hasn't been sitting in wet mud, therefore less likely to rust. I suggest that you plant your vining vegetable seeds (beans, cucumbers) directly under the fencing to help them.
I am pushing the limits on the north side of my northmost (1/5) fencelines bc I dumped right next to it this winter in the hopes of creating a raised bed (huglekulture) to grow 3 blueberry bushes.
Every blueberry bush I have bought has bitten the dust. Two of them dried out, the one I brought to live inside this winter didn't make it.
I probably have spent close to $100 of these things!
I plan to buy 4 from a box store this Spring or find the Best deal online and plant them in This bed, cage them in and tie a plastic jug with drip holes on the bottom. The handles help to secure them and I can unscrew the tops to fill.
If the three make it, the 4th can go to DD's yard.
We'll see if the chicken wire suffers. If so, I still have used rolls saved in my Carriage House.