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When I first planted the fruit trees out in our orchard I made these
giant cages of concrete reinforcing wire to keep the deer from eating
them - with a 30" top extension of stock fencing for a total height of 7
1/2 feet . Diameter is around 3 feet so about 9.5 linear feet perimeter
. I put 2 of these out in the garden today and planted Blue Lake pole
beans every 6" around the base . If this works like I hope it'll be like
18 feet of 7 1/2 foot trellis . And a whole lotta beans .
In other news , I got all the vine crops and the bell peppers in the
ground today as well as planting some okra and pulling weeds on the bulb
onion row . I shoulda picked strawberries today but they'll wait until tomorrow , production has slowed a bit .
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On 5/20/2024 3:58 PM, Snag wrote:

-a When I first planted the fruit trees out in our orchard I made these giant cages of concrete reinforcing wire to keep the deer from eating
them - with a 30" top extension of stock fencing for a total height of 7
1/2 feet . Diameter is around 3 feet so about 9.5 linear feet perimeter
. I put 2 of these out in the garden today and planted Blue Lake pole
beans every 6" around the base . If this works like I hope it'll be like
18 feet of 7 1/2 foot trellis . And a whole lotta beans .
-a In other news , I got all the vine crops and the bell peppers in the ground today as well as planting some okra and pulling weeds on the bulb onion row . I shoulda picked strawberries today but they'll wait until tomorrow , production has slowed a bit .

It might be a little difficult to find some of the beans in the middle
of that trellis.

I use rebar as individual poles for multiple plants for each pole. The
poles started at 10 feet long, with a few extra feet welded to a few of
them, and I push them maybe a foot and a half into the ground. This
year, I have 8 poles spaced out over a line about 50 feet long. Sometime before the beans get near the top of the pole, I will tie a line to a
tree at each end of the row which I will have wrapped a couple time
around each pole, and pull the line tight to stabilize the distance
between them. I then attach a couple lines to the fence on one side of
the row, and the top of a couple of the poles 1/3 from the end of the
row, and another line to the ground opposite the fence from the same
pole to stabilize the row against tipping in the wind.

With my 10 foot orchard ladder, picking is easy. The beans go to the
top, and then droop downward before they quit growing.

And they always grow counter clockwise around the pole.

At the end of the year, after harvesting the last beans left for seed, I remove the lines, pull the poles and beans from the ground, and just
push the bean plants from one end of the pole to the other (bottom to
top?), and off the pole. The remains get mowed up for the compost.

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Snag wrote:

When I first planted the fruit trees out in our orchard I made these
giant cages of concrete reinforcing wire to keep the deer from eating
them - with a 30" top extension of stock fencing for a total height
of 7 1/2 feet . Diameter is around 3 feet so about 9.5 linear feet
perimeter . I put 2 of these out in the garden today and planted Blue
Lake pole beans every 6" around the base . If this works like I hope
it'll be like 18 feet of 7 1/2 foot trellis . And a whole lotta beans
. In other news , I got all the vine crops and the bell peppers in
the ground today as well as planting some okra and pulling weeds on
the bulb onion row . I shoulda picked strawberries today but they'll
wait until tomorrow , production has slowed a bit .

Sounds good. Firt crop of tomatoes due, possibly tomorrow. Ran
nitrogen low so added some.

The marigolds are indeed keeping the rats and other rodents at bay
(area problem in a spot that's been a huge international shipping port
since before the American revolution).

Today, Chocolate bell peppers go in. Beans (wax and blue lake green)
taking off with a bang. Lettuce should have baby crop in 2 weeks.
Lots of green onions.
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