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Magic Bean Day 102 – Enough Training for My Climbing Beans

Sandy — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:04:50 +0000

Since my magic beans have been climbing and wrapping around the water pipe pretty well, I decided to take away the training poles. I just love the leaves. It is awseome to see how my climbing beans have added more greens on the wall, creating a little vertical element in my balcony.

Magic Bean Day 54 – Training and Supporting My Climbing Beans

Sandy — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:02:47 +0000

It was really windy last week. The wind was blowing fiercely that my two pots of magic beans kept toppling so often that I finally gave up getting out to the balcony and trying to keep them straight. It was then I knew I should find a more suitable place for my climbing plants as soon as possible, somewhere with good support for the vines to grow, avoiding the plants from collapsing.

And I am happy that I have found a water pipe which I have never taken any notice of until now.

Haha! Anyways, I hope it works

To train the climbing plants, I had the vines wrapped around the water pipe, then gently tied the ends of the vines with a thread.

Here is where my magic beans used to be. As you can see, the balcony railings are covered with a transparent, banister guard (to avoid my playful yorkshire terrier from jumping out), which is too smooth for my climbing plants to hold on to for some support.

Magic Bean Day 33 – My Magic Beans Are Climbing!

Sandy — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:15:16 +0000

I didn’t pay much attention to my magic beans after I repotted my plants and put them in the balcony. And when I checked them out a few days later, I found that the “I Love You” bean and the “I Like You” bean had already grown so much.

It is not until later, after some quick research, did I learn that many climbing plants are actually fast growers. Hmm… may be my magic beans are ones of these fast growing climbers huh.

This is my first time growing climbing plants. In fact, I didn’t expect growing any climbing plant until now, when I saw the long tendrils of my magic beans twining with each other

Since I don’t want my magic beans to grow on the ground, I have added a pole next to each of my magic beans, and twined the plants around the poles. I don’t know how well will this work. In fact, I still haven’t yet decided where should I grow these magic beans. And what should I do if my magic beans outgrow the poles in another week? Hmm…