runner bean wigwam

I prefer the X-Wam shape as the runners carry on through the middle tie and end up cascading down off each cane, making picking easier and straighter pods than with the wigwam shape.

I prefer the X-Wam shape as the runners carry on through the middle tie and end up cascading down off each cane, making picking easier and straighter pods than with the wigwam shape.

Same here, I have not had one blown away yet!

If anyone is worried about this, surely the answer is to hang a weight off the middle of the X.

Last year around September we had high winds on our site and a lot of the cane wigwams were blown over. Several plots have already put up their supports and most are just bamboo canes with a horizontal cane along the top so high winds this year will have the same consequences.

For my 24 foot long row I use five foot wooden stakes at eight foot intervals with eight foot long rails screwed to the tops. To this rigid frame I lash eight foot long green plastic covered metal poles at four foot intervals with another five horizontally. Then fill in with eight foot bamboo canes. This wont go anywhere.