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#215605 Jun 13th, 2008 at 01:11 PM
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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.
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ha! neat idea. just sit on the porch...reach over and grab a bean to eat! love it!


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This sounds like a nice solution for a decorative porch! AND, saving garden space...what a plus!! Very nice idea.


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I may try that with my iron supports on my front porch next year, only with Thunbergia or morning glories. Nice idea.

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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.


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you have enough scarlett runner beans to plant like that, I only have about 5 beans. I think it's a pretty little vine, need to get mine planted


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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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Leave your pods ripen on the vine and save your seeds for next year. You can then plant every week thumbup


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