Using Horticultural Netting (aka Crop Netting) to Trellis Pole Beans
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Pole Bean Support - Although there are many, many ways to support pole beans and climbing peas in a smaller home garden (refer to this web page for examples and fun ideas - www.vintagevegg..., this Victory Seed Company (www.VictorySeed...) instructional video describe a method that makes it feasibly practical to raise hundreds and thousands of row feet using crop netting (aka horticultural netting).
The Victory Seed Company is a small organization working to keep heirloom, non-GMO, and other open-pollinated seeds available to home gardeners.
This is the best, easiest way of trellising beans I have seen...yet! Good Job!
Thank you . . . Glad it was helpful. ~Mike
I love Victory Seeds! I order the Dixielee field peas and Runner Beans!!'Auesome!! Thanks for the videos!!
Thank you for the "shout out" and I am sorry for the extremely tardy reply. Too many irons in the fire and learning how to use UA-cam and all of the other social media tools has taken a back burner to more necessary work . . . like growing seeds! :) Thank you again for helping to support our endangered plant variety preservation work with your orders and for your word-of-mouth recommendations! ~Mike
Hi guys
how did it work out in the end?? thinking of doing it in April 2012 just wondering if it was successful.. Thanks for sharing the vid!!
I am sorry for the half-decade long delay in replying. Obviously UA-cam became a super low priority on my to do list! Hopefully you caught the follow-up videos we posted. The system works great for us and we use it every season for our bean (and some climbing peas) grow outs. ~Mike
What is the spacing between your posts?
There is no set or recommended spacing. We are growing rows that are about 100' long and it ends up taking seven upright posts with two smaller posts pounded in at angles as end anchors. So roughly 15' spacing. That said, if it is a particularly heavy variety, we will go back through a row during the season and add supports in between the spans as needed. Hope this helps. ~Mike
How do you secure the end of the rope at the beginning ? Poly rope is not easy to knot. All the video says is "tie off."
Hi There. Actually, the 1/4" to 3/8" poly rope knots easily. Get out the trusty Scout Handbook . . . square knots to join pieces together and to "tie off" the ends, your favorite hitch know will do the trick. I tend to use half-hitches. Hope this helps. ~Mike
My husband was an Eagle Scout and learned all the knots in the scout book and he is not able to tie this particular 1/4" poly rope - too slippery.
It must be something different than what we use. It literally is simply the cheapest we can find and we don't have to tie any fancy knows to get the job done. I guess you could do it "old school" and use wire across the top like we used to do in the olden-days when we used twine for our trellis.
I'm a Clove Hitch fan. Method 2 in this video is perfect for this application.
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I don't know what to tell you there ... I too was a Scout and square knots and hitches work perfectly fine for me.
Very helpful us. Thank you.
Were can you get this netting?
I am hoping that I replied to you via email. I just figured out today that posts here on our UA-cam page were being queued up behind the scenes. Here is a reply to a similar post ... If you do a search for horticultural netting, you will turn up sources. I am hoping to be able to offer it in the future through the Victory Seed Company website. I have not bought any for the past couple of years (with some effort it is reusable) but the last batch I bought was online
from Home Depot. It was the cheapest source at the time. Hope that this
helps. ~Mike
Nice Job. :-) .....Donald
I can see that this method is very time efficient for you. Is the netting reusable? Is there a compostable netting available? It would seem time consuming to remove the vines at season end. I'm sure many of us have concerns about using a non-renewable resource and creating more trash for landfills.
As noted in the previous email, I am sorry for the tardy reply. I jut learned that posts are hidden until approved. You can use twine to create your trellis. We still use the Florida Weave method for training up tomatoes - www.webgrower.com/information/tomato_florida-weave-method.html. You can also see how we used to trellis our beans at this location - www.vintageveggies.com/catalog/vegetable/beans/beantrellis.html#Sissal. The twine is biodegradable but it is an extremely laborious process so we simply cannot afford to use that method in larger scale production. The horticultural netting is UV resistant and if you are careful, will last several seasons. Hope that this helps. ~Mike
Where can I buy a big roll of this netting ?
If you do a search for horticultural netting, you will turn up sources. I am hoping to be able to offer it in the future through the Victory Seed Company website. I have not bought any for the past couple of years (with some effort it is reusable) but the last batch I bought was online from Home Depot. It was the cheapest source at the time. Hope that this helps. ~Mike
Thank you
You are very welcome. :)