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Here is the trellis I built for my Kentucky pole beans.
« on: July 25, 2009, 02:11:05 PM »
Here is the trellis I built for my Kentucky pole beans. I built a permenent one this year and this is where I will always plant my pole beans now. It is made from galvinized steel. Dale
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Re: Here is the trellis I built for my Kentucky pole beans.
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2009, 02:14:03 PM »
Here are a couple more. Dale
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Re: Here is the trellis I built for my Kentucky pole beans.
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2009, 03:03:54 PM »
Nice, I bet it looks even better when they start climbing.
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Re: Here is the trellis I built for my Kentucky pole beans.
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2009, 03:09:45 PM »
Nice, I bet it looks even better when they start climbing.
Thanks. I only have a few that are almost to the top as of now but once they start climbing they grow I swear 3 to 4 inches a day. I will take a picture next Saturday you will see by then most will be near the top. Dale
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« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2009, 10:15:00 AM »
Wow my beans have really taken off. I was out there a little while ago and yeastrday I had a couple shoots that were 3 or 4 inches from the top. They are now a couple inches past the top bar now. :o That means in less than 24 hours they have grown 5 to 6 inches. :o I bet by next Saturday they are all up to the top.:o  ;D Dale
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« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2009, 10:57:56 AM »
Boy my beans have taken off!!!! Here are some pictures taken today one week later. I can't wait to put them in a pot with ham and potatoes. ;D The picture on top is last Saturdays and the lower picture is todays. :o Dale
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« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2009, 11:05:00 AM »
Again last weeks top. This weeks bottom. Dale
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« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2009, 11:08:27 AM »
Here are a couple more. Dale
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« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2009, 11:11:53 AM »
Here are my yellow wax beans. Dale
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Re: Here is the trellis I built for my Kentucky pole beans.
« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2009, 10:41:45 AM »
Want to see something climb .... come down south a get a little kudzu.  Will grow a yard a day in August.

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Re: Here is the trellis I built for my Kentucky pole beans.
« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2009, 10:46:04 AM »
Kudzu actually does grow 1' per day and it is eatible, like greens.  Roots are eatable also, as well as some people make jelley from the flowers.  Some even use the vines for basket weaving.  It just doesn't stop growing until frost.

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Re: Here is the trellis I built for my Kentucky pole beans.
« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2009, 12:50:41 PM »
My pole beans are flowering now. ;D In a couple weeks I will have plenty of beans. ;D I never heard of Kudzu before. :o Dale
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Re: Here is the trellis I built for my Kentucky pole beans.
« Reply #12 on: August 05, 2009, 02:39:08 AM »
Kudzu was imported from SE Asia in the 1930's to use as erosion control especially along highways.  It is a vine that grows 1' per day.  It covers the ground, grows up telephone poles and can completely kill smaller trees by covering them up.  It grows deep roots.  To get rid of it you have to use cows or goats and graze it down to the vines, then put hogs in there to root up the root system.  It is very hard to kill short of digging it up.  You want me to send you a sprig?  It really doesn't grow up north because cold kills it like a decidous tree.  However it isn't cold enough long enough in the south to completely kill it off.  It comes back in the spring.  Honeysuckle vines were also brought from Asia for erosion control also.  However, honeysuckle is well liked by bees and due to the sweet flowers.  We used to break them off and suck out the sweet nectar in the flower.  It doesn't grow as fast as kudzu. 

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Re: Here is the trellis I built for my Kentucky pole beans.
« Reply #13 on: August 11, 2009, 02:52:46 PM »
I will take some more pictures this weekend but they are all to the top now. I also have baby beans on many. Dale
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Re: Here is the trellis I built for my Kentucky pole beans.
« Reply #14 on: August 11, 2009, 04:14:27 PM »
good work on the trellis and the beans will be worth all the work. I see you used unistrut for the supports.
Thats a high dollar trellis but strong.

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« Reply #15 on: August 11, 2009, 04:32:04 PM »
good work on the trellis and the beans will be worth all the work. I see you used unistrut for the supports.
Thats a high dollar trellis but strong.
It is the stuff electricans use to support conduit on big jobs. The company I worked for was going to throw it out so I took some. With their permission of course. I wish I had loaded more. I did not want to be a hog and wanted others to have some also. I know a bunch still went to the scrap yard. Like I said I wish I had taken more. Dale
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Re: Here is the trellis I built for my Kentucky pole beans.
« Reply #16 on: September 06, 2009, 04:31:13 PM »
My beans are starting to slow down. >:( The last few weeks I have been picking a full to the top plastic bag you get from the grocery store. Probably about 8 pounds every other day. My wife says she don't want to see another green bean until next year. :o ;D I grow them she is in charge of blanching and freezeing them. I have eaten green beans almost every night for over a month. ;D I still have a couple more weeks and they will be done for sure. I bet I have picked over a 100 pounds by now. :o ;D That is a lot of beans. Dale
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