Can I grow pinto beans on chainlink fence?

[crazzzymike13]

I just built a chainlink fence around my yard. For privacy I was wondering if I could grow pinto beans on it? Would they be too heavy for the fence?

 

[thistlebloom]

I'm pretty sure pintos are a bush bean Mike, so not much of a privacy screen from them. But you could certainly grow a pole bean variety on chain link.

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

There are some pole and some bush varieties of pinto out there, although I think that most are bush. Do you have the packet that your seeds came in?

A late welcome to TEG!

 

[crazzzymike13]

I haven't gotten any yet. I didn't know pintos were bush types.

 

[crazzzymike13]

So what would you recommend? I live in zone 7 and it get gets really hot in the summer.

 

[baymule]

Welcome to TEG @crazzzymike13 !!!!!!! I grow green beans that have become almost famous on this site. Here is a link to the thread about them. They are Thai #3 Long Beans from www.rareseeds.com

http://www.theeasygarden.com/threads/my-2012-green-bean-garden-2013-post-48.11390/


Another good vining bean is Violet's Multicolored Butterbeans found in this thread
http://www.theeasygarden.com/threads/butterbeans.11642/

 

[so lucky]

We've got at least two bean aficionados on this forum, Mike. I bet @marshallsmyth or @Bluejay77 would be able to recommend a climbing pinto type bean. Maybe they will see this and add their 2 cents worth.

 

[baymule]

How could I forget? @Bluejay77 did his free beans grow out last year and promises to do it again this year, in April. You select bean seeds, he sends you seed, you grow the beans, double the number of seeds and send them back to him. He is a bean collector and does not have the room to grow all his varieties, so we help him refresh his seeds. In return, we get a chance to have some awesome heritage bean varieties.

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

Native Seed Search has a few pole varieties of pinto. Look through their beans, you may find something else that you like.

http://shop.nativeseeds.org/collections/common-beans

Their are thousands of pole bean varieties out their, so it would be near impossible to recommend a single one.

 

[897tgigvib]

Beans ought to love growing on a chain link fence. I can hardly think of any annual that would be too heavy for a chain link fence.