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This is not an instant play house but when it comes to ‘fruition’ it’s lots of fun! …and you get beans!


Material

  • 6 Bamboo poles, garden stakes or trimmed branches
  • 1 Roll of garden twine
  • 3 Climbing beans

Method

  1. Draw a circle in your garden bed approximately 4ft in diameter
  2. Place your poles at even intervals then widen the gap between the two facing the front. Push the bases of the poles firmly into the ground. Gather the tops of the poles together and secure with a piece of twine.
  3. Begin weaving your twine around your teepee from the base, stopping when you get the the door opening and reversing. This doesn't need to be perfect, aim for about 6"; between each row tied on every so often so the beans don't pull it down
  4. Dig a hole at the base of three of your posts and plant in your peas, seedlings are best, lots of things like to eat beans!

Notes

Beans grow surprisingly fast! This will come together faster than you think!



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  • mle00
    • 26 Mar 2014
      8:03 pm

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  • i love beans and fresh beans are the best

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  • A bean teepe is an awsome idea

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  • Thanks for this clever idea. Looks wonderful too!

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  • What a beauty and a great idea, clever you.

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  • My son would love this as a cubby house. Really cool idea.

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  • This is great and easy, my biggest problem is everything likes beans and peas especially all the wild rabbits that are in almost plague numbers around my place. I guess I’ll have to get more wire to protect them.

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  • a natural tepee, so love this, thanks for sharing

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  • Love this idea, thanks for sharing

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  • We will be doing this as well as the ‘three sisters’ technique this year: which is to grow corn,beans and squash together. Lots of work in our garden this year.

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  • What a great idea. Thanks for sharing. How long did this take?

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  • I’ve seen these floating around on the net before. Have always wanted to try and now I’m inspired to!

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  • Love it

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  • The birds, snail and slugs will attack the peas before they will the beans. I just wonder how we are going to pick the beans that grow inside the teepee. Push your hands through ?? I have never had my beans attacked by sparrows but they eat the peas off very quickly even if planted and shielded by an old window screen. You will be lucky if the plants grow more than the length of your ring finger.

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  • Love it, decorative and functional as well. Yours looks wonderful and thanks for the informative tutorial.

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  • An interesting idea thanks for sharing

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  • Decorative and you get to eat the produce. Great idea.

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  • lots of fun and lots of beans too

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  • a very decorative garden idea

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  • What a wonderful idea how did you come up with it

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  • good idea, thanks for sharing

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