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Bamboo tipi
Grow a den made of bean plants
Here’s what you’ll need! Instructions:
1. Find a spot in the garden where you want to grow your
Shopping list for your
local garden centre: tipi.
Some bamboo canes
2. Mark out a circle (it can help to use sand). This is where
Some garden string
you want the edge of your tipi to be.
Runner bean seeds or young plants
A trowel 3. Push the bamboo canes into the soil leaving about 10 to
Multipurpose compost 20cm between each cane. Leave a 50 cm gap between
Watering can two of the canes for the way in to your tipi.
4. Tie the canes together using the garden string at the top.
You might need a tall grown up to help!
5. Near the bottom of each cane, dig a little planting hole
and fill it with some compost.
6. Plant a runner bean seed or young plant in each of the
planting holes. There are lots of types of bean so have
fun choosing. If you are using seeds, use two in each
planting hole in case one doesn’t sprout.
7. When you’re done, give them a good water. Runner beans
like water so give them plenty as they grow.
8. Your beans will grow over your canes and make a tipi.
You can use it as a den, and pick, cook and eat the beans
that grow.
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Visit your local garden centre to get started.
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