I have today got Mr Sheds to take me to the local wood shop to purchase the necessaries to make the bean frame in the latest Grow Your Own.
£30 !!!
to make a bean frame!!!
I came away with the usual ... 8 foot canes at 25p each.
I place 4 canes 16" apart each way, then tie them together at the top. Dig out the soil in the middle and replace with well-rotted compost, or shredded paper. Plant a bean at each cane. Then I put another plant in between each cane (so the plants are 8" apart each way) - these will climb up some twine tied to the wigwam at the top and secured to a tent peg in the ground.
That's 6 beans to a wigwam = £1 worth of cane. I know, I know about the carbon footprint of bringing bamboo from China. But they will last me several years. Why doesn't somebody produce British canes?