Week 21 - Bed EX2 Planting

We finished preparing this bed as a rough lazy-bed (not worked down to a fine seedbed) and sowed:

• Neckargold Climbing French Bean (2 seeds at 12 stations) - high yield medium-late variety, with long round yellow beans.
• Blauhilde Climbing French Bean (2 seeds at 10 stations) - maincrop variety with long oval purple pods.
• White Emergo Runner Bean (22 seeds) - an attractive and vigorous variety with white seed and flower.

The two varieties of climbing french beans were planted in a circle at the base of a 'tipi' of long tree branches. String will need to be added (tied at the top and to a stake at the ground) to make sure that each of the plants has a support to climb up.
The runner bean seeds were also planted in a circle, in the center of which a dead tree was planted. The top branches of the tree were trimmed and rocks were piled up around the base to help stabilize it. Lengths of twine will be tied to the branches of the tree and then to stakes driven into the ground beside each seedling, so that the plants have something to climb.