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Originally Posted by Tormato
When the bush long beans are at their peak, I go down the rows and help them a little by draping them over each other. A very good solution for bush beans would be to run T stakes with cordage running off the ends of the Ts to the other Ts, for a double row of support, one long string on each side of the plants down the row.
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At least I'm fortunate in that the bush beans do behave themselves.
They all usually stand up pretty good for me. In spring I usually grow 36' of Duke (which is usually a bean machine), Golden Rod (just 18' for use in canning three bean salad) and then 18' of something new to try. This fall I grew 36' of Contender in one bed for a fast finish and 18' each of Jade and Strike in another bed.
The problem this fall was that due to the heat I got them in a bit too late and the cold finished them before they finished making. This fall they'll go in earlier and I plan to use that wet newspaper cover trick and shade cloth to keep the soil from being too hot for germination.