Story Title: Growing beans
Episode 4: WA's Great Gardens
Date: 6th June 2010
Presenter: Neville Passmore

Beans are easy to grow and provide excellent nutritional value. Neville features how it's done with a range of different varieties.

Neville's Tips and Facts

• Beans and their close relatives peas, lentils, and pulses come in more forms than you can imagine.
• Try growing a selection which includes snow peas, sugar snap peas, runner and broad beans, soy products as well as breakfast staples baked beans, then there's dried beans and lentils.
• You can start beans as well as peas from packet seeds and some seedlings. Many are climbers so we will need some supporting structures.
• If you are restricted for room, bamboo stakes are a good place to start. You can make a bean tepee by tying off bamboo stakes at the top.
• Plant the seeds around the base and as they grow they'll fill in the walls making a living cubby for kids. Or you can make a wall of beans or peas with a woven lattice of bamboo. The possibilities are endless, giving you some structure for decoration in your garden.
• Dwarf French beans can be grown in pots and these are available as seedlings.
• Planting time in the garden is right now so head down to your local garden centre and get started.

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