Container Gardening Complete

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STEP 4 Fill the container about halfway with the 50/50

potting soil and compost blend. This helps support

the remaining branches as they’re installed. Continue

to insert more vertical branches, spacing them evenly

and then securing them to the horizontal branches

with hobby wire wrapped in a figure-8 pattern. Once

all the branches are installed and secured, fill the rest

of the bin with the potting soil blend until there’s only

about an inch of headspace remaining.

STEP 5 Plant a row of your favorite variety of pole beans

on either side of the branch trellis. Space bean seeds

2 in. apart. If you’d like to add some color, plant a

handful of flowering annuals around the outer edge of

the bin. Water everything in well and place your Bean

Trellis Bin where it receives at least 6 to 8 hours of sun

per day. As the beans grow, train them to grow up the

branches by gently guiding them in the right direction.

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As you can see, maintaining a container garden

is, in many ways, far easier than taking care of a

traditional garden in the ground. Though we have

to water and fertilize a bit more often than other

gardeners, container growers get to skip such

tasks as weeding, mulching, and tilling. Instead,

we get to focus on enjoying the garden’s beauty

and yields.

Natural bamboo stakes fashioned into teepees and inserted into fabric pots work like a charm

when it comes to growing a good crop of pole beans. Connect the teepees with a bamboo

cross bar at the top for added protection against high winds and heavy plants.

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