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Installing Tepee Support
Installing Tepee Support - Step 1
Use three poles, each 8 feet long, to make a tepee for pole beans and peas. Lay two poles parallel to each other, with the third pole between them, overlapping their ends 16 inches.
* Put pole beans on trellises or tepees on the north side of the vegetable garden, so the plants do not block the sun from other crops. Sow 6 to 8 seeds in a circle around each pole of a tepee, 1 pole bean seed every 3 inches along a trellis.
Vine varieties of beans will need a support to grow onto, such as a trellis, bean stakes or tepees. These types of tall plants may shade out any plants that you grow too close to them. Plan your garden for succession planting.
Make a bamboo or twig tepee for your kids, and cover it with an annual vine.
Plant vines next to a tree 10 to 14 feet tall, and let them scramble up the trunk and into the limbs for a blooming tree until frost.
If you're of an orderly bent, you can plant your kitchen garden in traditional rows, with sturdy bamboo tepees and trellises for climbing vegetables.
Fill a large container with sterile potting soil, build a bamboo tepee, and plant peas around the tepee as you would in the garden.
Pole beans, of course, need supports to grow, traditionally slender saplings were formed into tepee shapes by stripping their branches and sticking the butts in the ground along the rows and tied four at time near the top.
Vines also are great plants to enjoy with kids because many grow extremely fast. Make a simple tepee from bamboo poles and let scarlet runner beans cover it for a neat summer hideout.
Beans just keep on producing. You can plant bush beans in succession every 2-3 weeks and have a continual harvest or just put up a couple of tepees of space saving pole beans. And there's so much more variety than what you can find at the grocers.
Or create a tepee of bamboo poles and train scarlet runner beans into a summer playhouse for young children. You can even push a tripod of thin stakes into a large container for a portable plant show.
Some gardeners provide shelters for birds against bad snowstorms by tying up old Christmas trees into a tepee shape. Conifers, such as spruces and firs, also serve as havens.
Because of the limited space, spreading plants such as cucumbers and squash can be trained to grow up obelisks or bamboo tepees.
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