E-Z Bean Tepee on the cheap.

[Hellmanns]

This is a good project, Worth!

[ginger2778]

Heck yeah it is!

[PhilaGardener]

Now that's getting tied up in a project!

[Worth1]

Here you go guys ready for some beans.
The pictures show the opening to the north and from the south and how I staked it to the ground.

I want to add that the dark green bush you see to the right in the middle pictuer is my never ending supply of Bay leaves.
The stakes I had on hand.
Worth
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[BackyardFarm]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Here you go guys ready for some beans.
The pictures show the opening to the north and from the south and how I staked it to the ground.

I want to add that the dark green bush you see to the right in the middle pictuer is my never ending supply of Bay leaves.
The stakes I had on hand.
Worth
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Oh my goodness. I was just drawing up plans for the garden beds. I'm SO MAKING THIS. Maybe Luffa on one side and two kinds of beans on the other two. Ooooo or some sweet pea flowers mixed in! Or Nicotiana! My nieces and nephews will ADORE playing in it! It's even cute enough to put in the front flower bed! Thank you Worth!

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by disneynut1977

Wow Worth, these are really nice. Will need to show my hubby as I need support for my pole beans and cukes this summer. Was really close to ordering metal supports from gardeners supply, but yours are giving me second thoughts.

Originally Posted by BackyardFarm

Oh my goodness. I was just drawing up plans for the garden beds. I'm SO MAKING THIS. Maybe Luffa on one side and two kinds of beans on the other two. Ooooo or some sweet pea flowers mixed in! Or Nicotiana! My nieces and nephews will ADORE playing in it! It's even cute enough to put in the front flower bed! Thank you Worth!

My pleasure for sure.
Just make sure you use the treated pole as from what I have seen the non treated stuff it made from the fast growth white wood which is weak.

Pick through it ind get stuff with no knots or it will break.

Worth

[sdambr]

Those look great!

I picked up 2 rubber toppers from the greenhouse megastore last year out of curiosity. I have been very happy with everything I have purchased before from them, but these were a fail. They dried up and split before the end of the season.

No on to a new project, making new bean teepees!

I should start a thread: How many projects have I started from reading Tville.

Worth, I think you have been the initiator of a few.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by sdambr

Those look great!

I picked up 2 rubber toppers from the greenhouse megastore last year out of curiosity. I have been very happy with everything I have purchased before from them, but these were a fail. They dried up and split before the end of the season.

No on to a new project, making new bean teepees!

I should start a thread: How many projects have I started from reading Tville.

Worth, I think you have been the initiator of a few.

Sue I am glad I can be of assistance.

Worth

[MissS]

Worth I love it. I built one very similar many years ago for my then young daughter. I planted it with Morning Glories and cherry tomatoes as shrubs in the front. She played for hours in there. She did not care for the flavor of the tomatoes, but they made great toys for the sandbox.
Sadly one day Dad got mad and took the sledge hammer to the frame of her tee pee. I heard her screaming at our sliding doors as she watched him out the window taking down her little world.
That was it for me..........

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by MissS

Worth I love it. I built one very similar many years ago for my then young daughter. I planted it with Morning Glories and cherry tomatoes as shrubs in the front. She played for hours in there. She did not care for the flavor of the tomatoes, but they made great toys for the sandbox.
Sadly one day Dad got mad and took the sledge hammer to the frame of her tee pee. I heard her screaming at our sliding doors as she watched him out the window taking down her little world.
That was it for me..........

Patti that makes me almost want to cry.
I have always had a fondness for little girls, not in a creepy way mind you.
If I would have had children I always wanted to have girls not boys.
I wanted to be able to teach them everything I knew how to do from welding to cooking and gardening.
For someone to make a girl cry or hurt them in any way makes me mad to no end.

Worth

[MissS]

Such was life with a drunk..... There was NEVER a dull moment.

Keep us updated. It brings back many good memories for me too.
I wish that she had a dad like you Worth. It would have been just as colorful but way more fun.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by MissS

Such was life with a drunk..... There was NEVER a dull moment.

Keep us updated. It brings back many good memories for me too.
I wish that she had a dad like you Worth. It would have been just as colorful but way more fun.

Maybe so.
It reminds me of back when that Jackson feller which was the same age as me got accused of bad things with children.
The dirty minded guys at work were talking about how inappropriate it was for a grown man to take naps with little girls.
One of my friends across the way had a little 6 year old girl and a 11 year old that girl that loved me to death.
On Saturday night they would come over and help me hand load ammunition.
On Sunday we would go to the gun club and shoot the ammunition they loaded.
On some Sundays the 6 year old would have her mom bring her over and hang out with my wife and I when I wanted to take my evening nap she would come take a nap with me.
These children had parents that loved them.
I told the guys at work this and they almost fell over.
I called every one of them perverts for even thinking such a thing.
It would have broken that child's heart to not be able to take a nap with me.
I am white and they are African American to boot.

I'm going to get in my bean Tepee with my cat this summer and hide out.

Worth

[MissS]

Well don't forget to take a blanket and some snacks for the both of you. It's a good place to lie down and look up to see whatever it is there is going by to see and dream some dreams too.

[Starlight]

Worth... I am so glad I found this thread. Awesome set up. I was just going to start a thread asking about tepee's. One year I tried pvc, several years bamboo which molded so bad from rains and humidity. Neither worked.

You gave me a perfect solution. I do have a couple of questions. Do I need to paint or treat the wood with anything and also how do you figure out how to do the webbing?

Thanks for sharing. : )

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Starlight

Worth... I am so glad I found this thread. Awesome set up. I was just going to start a thread asking about tepee's. One year I tried pvc, several years bamboo which molded so bad from rains and humidity. Neither worked.

You gave me a perfect solution. I do have a couple of questions. Do I need to paint or treat the wood with anything and also how do you figure out how to do the webbing?

Thanks for sharing. : )

You know I was going to stain this stuff blue but forgot and remembered after I had the web on.
You can buy this stuff treated or untreated your choice.
When you go down to get it make sure it is nice and straight with no bends or any knots in it that are very big.
If there is it will just break.
I will get some with defects if I know I am going to be cutting it in short pieces.
I also dont always buy treated lumber to use outside.
That is what paint and stain is for.
Treated lumber is also many times soaking wet when you buy it so it has to dry out before you can paint it.

As for the web.

The best way for me to describe what I did is to do a pictuer.

But the clove hitch needs to be learned.
Clove hitch.


Back later with drawing.

Worth