In spring I plant about 12 polebean seeds at the base of each support-pole. Water them regularly and the minute they get tendrils I guide them along the poles and sideways along the overhang. Just some nails and lines of garden string will do it. It gives a lovely edible vine all around my porch and saves space in my garden. Great to start kids on a hobby.Eat them when very tender, blanch and freeze the rest for later. Larkspur.
If you plant Scarlet runner beans then you get to enjoy the pretty red flowers also, especially if you continue planting a couple every week, they bloom steadily that way.
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
I don't eat them, but I plant those purple hyacinth bean vines on a telephone pole I have in my yard, it has a cord wrapped around it and part of the cord just hangs almost to the ground, so I wind the vine til it decides to climb, it's really pretty when it does it, I have one started this year on it. it gets up where the cord is wrapped and just goes crazy going round and round and looks like a basket full of flowers up there when it blooms (it's still climbing right now.)
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