Setting up climbing aids is essential for the cultivation of pole beans and runner beans. You can easily make them yourself from materials such as logs, bamboo poles, wires or ropes. The diameter of the tendrils should be a maximum of 3 cm, otherwise the tendrils cannot wind themselves around the rods.
Climbing aids can be:
- tall poles set up in a circle and tied like a tent at the top
- so-called “bean tents”
- Rows of opposite sticks leaning against each other in a roof shape
- ropes or wires stretched upwards
- well suited for the balcony, as they take up little space
- individually set up ranks
- especially suitable for free spots in the bed
- Privacy trellis