in this episode we're going to be looking at planting out my giant Rena
beans now what we're going to do is have a little chat about the structures and
why we've built them in the way we have and we're gonna have a chat about how
we've prepared this soil and that's coming right up after this
so guys this beam trench was done quite a while ago and we prepped it by running
a rotavator through the ground first to break it up until quite a faint health
we then dug out all of that soil and we created a channel and in the bottom of
that channel we put a load of started to rot down leaf mulch and then on top of
that we put down some leaf mold which was completely broken down
so under this we put in some vegetable scraps throughout the winter and what
have you but but the leaf mold and the leaf motion is what's gonna be retaining
that water for us now as you can see here we have some nice strong Kings
they're really thick they're about the thick as my finger and they thick right
the way up they don't get thin at the top so what we're gonna do here now is
plant these beans and if I dig down far enough you should see that the moisture
in this show is nice and I've just started to hit the leaf mo mouse
I'll show you that now barely a sec
so here we have some of the leaf mulcher and it's just basically shredded leaves
and they very very much so they're holding that moisture in with a nice
root system on these beans and it's a perfect time to get him into the ground
now this is a variety called stena and it's
a no variety for producing large pods now last year I grew a pod up to thirty
inches and nowhere near the record but I'm hoping to push it a little bit
further this year what I did have a problem with asar with some of the pods
were curling and I believe I was down to water retention so we've really made
sure that their holes of water in the ground this year these beans weren't so
until quite late this year in fact it was the 22nd of April when we sold these
beans so as you can see they now come through where they're true first true
leaves and we are going to get them in the ground note so I'm gonna plant these
quite deep and we're just gonna pull this so back along them just like that
no oh yeah this area is really really windy guys and the last thing I want to
do is come back up here later on and find it all these have been snapped off
by by the wind that's we currently getting you know a lot of you who's seen
this before this in a bit of a mess at the moment it's rusting and all sorts
but it does go hammering but essentially this is what scares used in a lot of
nurseries for taping plants to sticks and you may have noticed them before
when you see these are the blue and green labels okay and that's essentially
all it does it creates a little loop okay around this plant so I'm gonna do
that no not too tight but it's not tight there guys right but it's enough to stop
the top of that bending over and being snapped in the wind until this bean
starts to curl around these kings we want to give them as much help as we can
now I want to talk about these bean structures at the moment I'm using three
different variety of bean structure this was what's known as a V frame okay and
that is because the Canes come in at an angle to the base and they go out to the
top and the reason for that it's a couple of reasons but the first reason
is that the beans get a lot more late in the center where they're growing because
they are not growing towards each other grow apart from each other
the second reason for this is the fact that these canes
although they're strong when you have them in a different format the beans
tend to be inside the king so they don't get the light it's very hard to grow
those beans long because they tend to get hooked up in other branches a
murabbi by growing in a v-shape the beans all
hang down as they grow out because they're growing out the only place they
can hang is down because the beans are leaning out like this and that's the
great thing about the v-shape being especially if you're showing
now as you can see here we have an a-frame now this a-frame I put together
using just bamboo canes and also cable ties I don't like string and I tell you
the reason for that is because up here is very windy and you really need a
strong system by using these cable ties and putting in the a-frame with this top
brace and also these diagonals this is one of the strongest frames you will
ever find it is really that good the next one we've got guys is the vertical
one and this is where we use utilizing the scaffolding poles that we already
have in the garden and we just place these canes in against them scaffolding
poles and we go the beams up vertically now we are growing a variety called
Cobra on this system this year the variety we're growing for the a-frame is
- ladies that is red-necked Rena beans and also we are growing a Bilotti bean
in amongst them as well so and then here we've got our giant bins and we also
have behind the uprights we also have some what's known as young-young beans
so guys all that leaves me to talk about now really is why are they planted in
these big tubs well there's a couple of reasons Route
trainers don't have enough soil to get this this plant go into what it needs to
for the simple reason being is you would need to get him straight though I just
wasn't ready so by panting I'm straight into these big tubs and then I'm so from
there they've got a little bit of room before they need to be moved out now we
could have even waited a little bit longer but as you can see these roots
never come straight down and they've just at the bottom I could just tease
that off now like that and now they're ready to continue going down into the
ground without any issues at all to this plant it's not root bound it's not gonna
have any issues getting its peak down into that leaf loss and it's job done so
I'm going to continue now to plant these in for this use attempt
the giant long beam for another world record attempt and we will see what
happens with that but like I said I'm gonna go around with this these will be
available on my websites as well so if you want one pop along there and have a
look and they are really good for Tomatoes cooping birds and you'll see
these later in the year getting news on them last year if you have a look at
some of the videos we've gotten on there as well
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