39) Flower pots with bean stakes (in a small garden)

In this tip:

  • Introduction
  • A)# Construction (from top to bottom)
  • B)# Building up
  • C)# Sowing beans or planting bean plants
  • D)# Making or adapting the parts

In this tip, a tipi with bean plants is described.

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35) More tips about germinating beans

In this tip:

  • A)# Introduction
  • B)# Lid on the tray with germinating beans
  • C)# Germinating on a “warm apparatus”
  • D)# Germinating in garden soil, potting soil, masonry sand or on kitchen paper
  • E)# Bean seeds germinating in a layer of water
  • F)# Bean seeds in a freezer
  • G)# Bean seeds with a bad germination capacity
  • H)# Bean seeds absorb water too fast

A)# Introduction

At    tip 12) “Sowing beans on absorbing paper”     you can read how to grow bean plants on moist kitchen paper.

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Now and then something goes wrong during germination. In this tip more info about germinating beans.

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32) Sowing beans in pots and planting in the garden later

In this tip:

  • Introduction
  • Sowing when and where to plant out?
  • A)# Sowing bean seeds in coffee cups filled with potting soil
  • B)# Filling with potting soil, sowing and watering
  • C)# Covering the cups
  • D)# Plants visible
  • E)# Cool and before a window
  • F)# Planting from the coffee cup into the soil
  • G)# Planting from the flower pot/insert/strip, into the soil
  • H)# Planting from a lowered coffee cup into the soil
  • I)# Planting from a normal coffee cup,  containing less potting soil
  • J)# Too warm or too dark
  • K)# Sowing beans in a flower pot/insert/strip,    with garden soil/compost mixture
  • L)# Summarized

Sowing beans in flower pots or plastic drinking cup.

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12) Sowing beans on absorbing paper

In this tip:

  • Introduction
  • A)# Folding kitchen paper
  • B)# Sowing beans in an ice cream box on kitchen paper
  • C)# Small bean plants
  • D)# General remarks about this procedure
  • E)# How fast germinating and growing
  • F)# Putting in a big tray or in flower pots
  • G)# Toppling
  • H)# Safety
  • I)# Soaking prior to germinating?
  • J)# Curling
  • K)# Wikihow
  • L)# Germinating other big seeds (Horse beans, (Snow) Peas, Zucchini, Cucumber, Pumpkin)
  • L)# Germinating other big seeds (Horse beans, (Snow) Peas, Zucchini, Cucumber, Pumpkin, Peanuts)
  • M)# Youtube video

This tip is about sowing and germinating bean seeds and other big seeds on moist kitchen paper.

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11) Robust tunnel for early green beans

In this tip:

  • Introduction
  • A)# Building the frame
  • B)# Putting foil on
  • C)# Using the tunnnel
  • D)# At very warm weather
  • E)# At heavy frost
  • F)# Breaking down

When you plant small bean plants under this tunnel in April (early spring), you can harvest the first beans in June (late spring).

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10) Beans in Sjef’s garden

In this tip:

  • Z)# Growing beans at warm dry weather
  • A)# Plastic tunnel with green bean plants (for early harvest)
  • B)# Bean plants in May (mid spring)
  • C)# First beans harvested
  • D)# Course: placing stakes (to prevent blowing down)
  • E)# Stepladder
  • F)# Nitrogen fixing bacteria at bean plants
  • G)# Bean species used (Prelude, Westlandia and Miracle)

Info about growing beans in your garden.

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