Build bean trellis yourself

What beans like to grow

Beans pull themselves up with the help of loops, which means that you do not need to tie the beans, as is the case with tomatoes, for example. But you have to provide the ground with something to hold on to. House walls are not recommended, as the beans do not have suction cups like ivy, for example, but instead attach themselves to something round in a loop-like manner.
If you want to save time, you can simply sow your runner beans next to a “natural” climbing aid. Here are a few ideas:

• chain-link fence
• Bamboo fence
• Corn (the beans wind their way up the corn without harming the plant)
• Metal fence with bars
• Window grilles (be careful, create more shade in the room!)

Build yourself a climbing aid cheaply and easily

If you do not have any of the above-mentioned things in the garden, you can easily build the climbing support yourself at low cost. For example from:

• Strip
• Bamboo sticks
• long branches

Build a climbing aid from strings

A particularly beautiful sight is a pyramid-shaped structure made of runner beans. This shape saves space and is very easy to build yourself.
You need:

Then do the following:

• Before setting up the wand, hammer nails all around the tip. The number of nails equals the number of your pole bean plants.
• Now tie a piece of rope to each nail. The cord should be about 1.5 times as long as the rod.
• Ram the rod into the ground, using a hammer or as deep as possible spade can help with that.
• Now stretch the strings to your plants or seeds and attach them next to the plants with the help of the sticks.
• The plants stand in a circle around the rod with a distance of at least 30cm.

You can find video instructions for your pyramid-shaped trellis here: