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I have been inventing again.
A couple of weeks ago after sowing and getting forty runner beans germinated plants. I thought I best make myself a runner bean frame.
Of course I never paid anything for my construction. Just some sticks that I cut with my trusty loppers and I got some baling twine and a piece of scaffolding tubing, a broken spade handle and a old hoe that the blade had rusted and corroded and fell off and tied it altogether.
Not bad? Maybe not aesthetically pleasing on the eye. But it will do just the job to grow the beans up.
I sold some bean plants at a carboot sale last week for 50 Cents a plant.
This time next year we'll be millionaires.🙂
Oh, very modern art!
ReplyDeleteTate Modern Art exhibition piece perhaps JayCee? Tightwad smallholding/allotment exhibit. Nicer than that pile of bricks. What's it worth? Maybe not an aesthetic piece but definitely an exhibition in repurposing and totally functional. I am sure the runner beans won't mind it and soon wrap their tendrils round the poles and camouflage my knocked up for nothing bean frame.😊
ReplyDeleteEven more ibbly wobbly than mine!!
ReplyDeleteI love ibbly wobbly GZ. Shall we advertise them in the Lady magazine or perhaps Countrylife?😄
ReplyDeleteI've used the same cane pyramids for about 10 years, by sooner or later they blow down. Have today put in a spare metal Metpost spike and a 2" square wooden post made from old shed wood for support this year. It can be dug up in autumn and put in a different position next year.
ReplyDeleteHi Tasker in all my time growing vegetables ( over thirty) I have never grown runner beans. To be honest I am only growing them for their red flowers. I will harvest the beans and if we don't like them the livestock will have a feast. Beans are legumes like peas and actually enhance the ground by releasing nitrogen through their root nodules. Tune into tomorrow for a Yorkshire related post.👍
ReplyDeleteHave ypu tried growing the Greek Gogantica, they are also runner beans and produce huge seeds to dry, or you can eat the pod and beans younger, when they are tender. They have been very successful here and our climate is similar to yours.
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No I haven't Kathy. I am off to Google them. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteReal seeds in pembrokeshire sells them. Greek Gigantes
DeleteKathy
Thanks I will look them up Kathy.
DeleteYou know, I read about a man who saw a couple beach umbrellas set to the curb. He picked them up, brought them home, cut away the sun rotted material, shortened the center pole and turned them into bean trellis. First thing I thought: "I wonder if there are beach umbrellas on the Irish Riviera?"
ReplyDeleteJust Furze bushes or Gorse and lots of rushes Debby.😀
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