Bean Tower, Heavy Gauge Bean Trellis - Green - Gardener's Supply Company

It is great tower for pole beans. This is second season we have used it. The only drawback is that during strong wind/storm, it can topple down if there no additional support given to it. Please use large/heavy pots on stable ground and give it additional support so that it does not topple down.

I judge a product based on it's usefulness over time, NOT on my initial impression first season. I liked my two bean towers until the connectors that attach the top section to the bottom started cracking after a few seasons. This made it a frustrating experience trying to connect the two sections because the cracked pieces didn't hold the top to the bottom. I ended up with one wobbly tower and two half-towers (since I can no longer connect them. I tried to order replacement connectors, but Garden Supply doesn't offer them. (I suppose this is what happens when things are made in China--no 'bin' of cheap, but important parts available at the site to support the long-term use of the product.) I will not order new towers to get connectors that cost cents to manufacture. I expect more from Garden Supply.

I am so disappointed. We bought one last year mid summer and used it for our beans. Put it up this summer abs taking it down the entire thing fell apart - I know have 8 individual panels that I can't get back together. Save your money and don't buy these!

Horrible. Not the normal good gs quality. I bought 12 of these 2 years ago, was so excited based on based purchases. They are cheaper/thinner coated metal. And they constantly fall apart when putting up and taking down. And then the actual small side pieces come off too, so I have a box of what look like small stakes. Ugh! Should have bought 1 and tried first. These are garbage and I regret my purchase. Will continue to buy from GS, but not anything like this!

I read one review that said that they do not stand up to wind. I found this to be true....and I have a great fix. I anchor a concrete spike on each side, insert a nail as a stop, place a 5-foot piece of aluminum conduit over the spike. Then I tie the cage to the conduit. It will not blow over. Here in NE Florida, we get thunderstorms with 80 mph winds, and I have not had one blow over. That includes hurricanes.

I set this up in my raised bed for my Chinese long beans. It sits pretty firmly inside and is solid. I really love how sturdy it is and it won't even rock on windy days. The beans are growing great and climbs so naturally. I can see how this could be used for a lot of different plants. I loved this so much that I bought a second one to grow another variety of yard long beans.

I bought this to replace the trellis my blackberry vines grew against. I love it! It's sturdy and tall enough to hold these vines upright off the ground.

Voracious meadow voles can't climb. So we surrounded each stand with an 8 inch high strip of hardware cloth to protect our snap pea seedlings. They grew an unprecedented 10 feet tall with an abundant crop. We are able to rotate legume plantings within one garden bed because of the stands compact footprint. Glad I bought two on sale. Will use them for pole green beans this summer and peas again next fall. My only critical comment pertains to price, which seem generally too high. I would buy more if prices were lower.

I am very pleased with how sturdy this item is because utility is what matters most to me (I am using to support fava beans). So the choice of bright red was an unexpected benefit that looks nice.

I use it for beans, but next year will try cucumbers.

I have ordered these cages in the past and loved them. The ones I ordered this year have had a design change which is flawed. The new cages have plastic fittings instead of metal fittings that accept the top-half of the tower. When taking down the my cages this week, I noticed that all the plastic fittings have split up the sides, making the cages unstable and completely useless once this happens. The product description states that the cages are 100% powder coated steel. The old cages were but the new ones ARE NOT because of the fitting design change. I looked for replacement plastic fittings to replace my cracked ones but had no luck finding any. I am very very disappointed with these new cages. Please Please Please revert back to the metal fittings and/or sell replacement plastic fittings.

Bought it in 2013 and used it for one season. The welding came apart as I was taking it down at the end of the season. Did not use summer of 2014 because I wad broken. Cleaning the garage spring 2016 and came upon it, renewing my anger at such a low quality product that I felt compelled to write a review. I thought was buying quality and would honestly like my money back. I prefer to buy high quality items because I like to think it will last longer and not fill up the world with garbage. My advice....buy some 1x 2s and some twine

This bean tower worked well for the first year, but then it fell completely apart when I attempted to store it last fall. It costs too much to only last for one growing season. It is poorly made.

I am very disappointed with this product! Just as the beans started producing the whole thing just folded over in a rainstorm. It collapsed as though you were going to store it for the winter! If it had just tipped over, I would understand and secure it to the ground better...but it did not come up out of the ground! It folded in half and collapsed at the place where the top section joined the bottom section. It is now a mess that I'm not sure can be salvaged. There should be rigid corners to resist collapsing.

I put this in my garden and after 3 days of rain it rusted. One would think it could handle rain as it is for outdoors. Terrible quality a total waste of money. They should refund me. Difficult customer service reps.

These are utilitarian, not pretty. They're practical. I have successfully used them for indeterminate tomatoes and pole beans; this year I added more for snap peas. Pole beans: plant one seed at each of the 8 uprights; watch at first because you might have to redirect a plant back to it's support (sometimes one reaches out and finds it's neighbor plant first), but once they've attached, you're done. The most time consuming part of growing beans this way is disposing of the clinging dead vines in the fall. Indeterminate tomatoes: the towers eliminate the need for training. Plant one plant per tower; you can let more than one vine grow from the base, but then be sure to prune out the suckers or you'll have an impenetrable mess. Also, one year I had 3 of these loaded with tomatoes (and therefore having a high center of gravity) get toppled by a strong autumn wind. My solution is that now I scrunch my tomato towers into a narrowed rhombus (not square), and put 3 of them butting up to each other's corners with the center tower perpendicular to the outer towers. Then I tie the adjacent corners together. The perpendicular center and the shared support keep the towers from toppling. This arrangement also makes reaching tomatoes easier; the narrower cage prevents trapping of tomatoes between heavy vines.