Has anyone used their eBuckets to grow bush beans, pole beans, crowder peas, black eyed peas, purple hull peas, kentucky wonder green beans or Super sugar snap pease? If so, please comment on your results and trellising methods.
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Growing Bush/Pole Beans and Peas in eBuckets
There's no reason beans or peas wouldn't grow as well as anything else. You could trellis them with the same concrete-reinforcing wire cages that many use for tomatoes. Make the cage small enough to fit into the top of the bucket...you'd have pillars of greenery and easy pickins.
Of course, there is another way for beans that I've always wanted to try. See the thread from Darrell Carrington, about his stairway of beans. http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/528855/
This message was edited Jan 14, 2009 1:53 PM
During the winter months when we are in Florida, I grow my bush beans and pole beans in large ceramic pots on my patio. The pole beans grow up trellis's and I have huge yields and delicious beans. We have been here 3 months and I have just planted my third round of both bush and pole beans. They germinate very quickly here. Given my experience with the pots, I would think you would have no problem planting them in the eBuckets. BTW, I plant them very thickly in my pots.
This shot was taken at the tail end of one round of pole beans when there were not as many, but it shows how they grow up the "trellis" we made of lattice trim.
another shot of the beans........
Gymgirl,
I'm growing bush beans in 5 gallon grow bags (Picked a bunch yesterday)
I'm growing pole beans in a open top EarthBox 5 foot 1x1 sticks as a trellis (got them at Lowes)
Pics tomorrow ( it's dark now)
BocaBob