Our green beans are pumping out at max capacity in the garden, it's great!
We have been very lucky this year to not have much of a pest problem and that our new trellis design has held up and worked just as planned.
We used 8 foot tall T posts; one at each end of the row and another in the middle. The average span from post-to-post is around 10 feet. It's a little bit of a stretch, but has worked out okay so far this year. Next year we're going to buy more T posts to reduce the span between posts. For connecting the posts together, we used galvanized electric fence wire and did three horizontal runs down the rows. One at the top, middle, and bottom of the post. We then ran jute twine up and down the wires to give a place for the beans to climb and attach themselves to.
We grew a variety called Greasy Beans this year. We also grew them last year and these are seeds from that crop. If you've never heard of this variety or tried them you are sorely missing out! These beans are hearty, easy to string, and produce very well. Oh.. and they taste fantastic!
We've had two "pickings" so far this season from the beans. It looks like we'll get another one, maybe two more! The first picking gave us 11 pounds of beans, and the second gave 18 pounds.
We have been canning the beans and have about 17 quarts to date. Our recipe is simple. Pack the beans into the jars, add 1 teaspoon of salt, fill with boiling water, then process in a pressure canner for 25 minutes.
Fresh from the pressure canner in the Outdoor Kitchen. It doesn't get much better than that!
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