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I’m not a suburban guy and I’m used to not having to put curtains on my windows and
now I’m living in the suburb and I was trying to find some way that I could live in my house
without having to put down curtains at night, and not fiddle with it, so I thought why
don’t I grow a trellis with some edible crops because remember I just thought that
this whole place was supposed to be a food farm and I had nothing ornamental or unuseful.
So trouble is this only works for about … I don’t know, 10 weeks a year, the rest
of the year it’s not sufficiently dense to really make privacy for us so we’re going
to give this up and try something else. This was extremely productive, there’s eight
lineal meters of trellis and it made a wonderful system on the house side, in the early spring
I planted climbing peas. In the middle of October on this side I planted bush beans/climbing
beans and then around Christmas the peas were all done so I ripped them out and I planted
another row of beans. So about the time that the far row of beans began to be exhausted
the row close to the house started to produce. And so we’ve been filling refrigerators
over there with beans constantly and these are not just ordinary beans either, this is
a variety, it’s called Musica, this one here is a bit overdone, in fact none of them
probably taste any good any more because it’s early May, but this is a typical pod from
Musica and when it’s producing well one this size is not oversize, this is still just
perfect eating with no seed development. Musica is a greenhouse bean from Holland, does not
like wind and it needs lots of moisture because it doesn’t have a strong root system but
it makes a pretty high quality product. I don’t give seed away from Musica, I don’t
encourage most people to grow it, it’s not easy to grow but it’s very high quality
food.