Bean tipi

What do kids and beans have in common? They both love to climb! In today’s tutorial, we’ll show you how to make a bean tipi (or teepee!) for beans to climb. The kids? They’ll be hiding inside in another month or so. 🙂 This was a big project (and a big tipi!), so we spread…

How to make a bean pole trellis that is highly functional and attractive. A wonderful living structure that doubles as a kids' hideaway.

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Making a bean teepee is a fun and easy idea. It makes a great addition to any home garden and will provide a great conversation piece to visiting friends and neighbors. You can grow any vining vegetable on a teepee like this such as vining squash...

Image from Bower Power Blog. In a continual effort to maximize the tiny patio space we have in our new home for urban gardening, we've been trying to come up with as many creative ideas to make use of vertical space as we can. After getting inspired by the self imposed Pinterest Challenge hosted by fellow Richmond bloggers, Young House Love, and the endearing Katie Bower of Bower Power Blog, this was just what we needed over the weekend to finally tackle a project we've been wanting to take…

Right before we went on vacation, we started a project that will be fun for the boys if it works out as planned. We tied some poles together, laced them up with twine, and dug out a trench from our…

Wow! We just love our bean teepee! We started it on June 17th by preparing the soil, setting out the bamboo poles, and planting the beans. We alternated Scarlet Runner beans with Fortex pole bean…

Teepee Trellis for Pole Beans, Snow Peas, Climbing Vines etc...

So got the Bean Teepee finished up, its all prepped now, we filled in the half moons with lots of new made soil and planted them out in more climber beans. The older beans in some cases have a good…