[Totty]

Got the new structure up today. Hoping to let more light into the middle of the rows and easier picking. Hopefully. Got the sticks cut too. Roll on spring.

Totty

Sorry if the pic is too small. Not too clued up on how to do pics with an I pad!

[HuwG]

Good start. I find that if you use bean net on the structure you can untwist the beans and layer them horizontally. This means that it takes them longer to get to the top of the structure and then flap about in the wind

[Totty]

Not a huge fan of the pea and bean netting HuwG, bit too fiddly for me.
Good idea though.

Totty

[sunshineband]

I have reverted to canes laid against my frame at an angle, and at the end of the season, it is dead easy to slide them out fro the bean coils and chop up all the stems for the compost.

Can't be doing with untwiddling bean netting... and too expensive to buy new each year too.

Your frame looks nice and sturdy 

[JayG]

Looks like a good design Totty (ignoring the fact that the bed appears to be vertical so the soil will probably fall out!)  

Any design which allows the beans to grow away from, rather than towards, each other is useful - inverted "V"s can get congested where the canes converge, and wigwams are a nightmare if you plant them quite densely.
My Munty frame is made from angle iron and is strung with galvanised wire (I can play tunes on it in winter!)  
The diagonal wires are left permanently in place, but are strong enough to be able to just yank the bines off at the end of the season. The vertical wires are lengths of wire with a loop at one end and are hooked over the horizontal bar of the frame, with the other end pushed into the soil - they are simply pulled back out leaving the rest of the bine high and dry in autumn.

I don't seem to have the patience these days even to unravel my pea netting at the start of the season, never mind sorting out the tangled mess at the end of it!  

[sunshineband]

I should have said I only have canes leaning on one side, which makes for easy picking. Ten foot canes at an angle on a seven foot high frame give a good covering of beans that hang down nicely


 (following on from Jay's comment, which I agree with  )

[Totty]

I have always thought they way in which you see the majority of bean frames ( traditional crossed top) makes picking as difficult as possible. Week see if this works out better!

Totty

[tjcnok]

Do you all have those wire cattle panels over there? That's what we use for just about all our  climbing vegs here. 16'ft. long and 50" high. We use steel T-posts for something to secure them to and leave them up permanently. Rotate all our vegs. every growing season. They are galvanized so rust hasn't been a problem.

[Totty]

I know what you mean, and bet it works a treat. Not sure a galvanised cattle frame would look the part though...

Totty

[Chrysalis]

Munty, munty, munty!!! We love ours and I'm counting the days until it is resurrected and we can have lovely beeans again!

Thanks, Munty for your invention...

[mumofstig]

For anyone who doesn't know what a Munty is 
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=50801.msg49805#msg49805