[Augie]

Have either of you ever tried growing beans in an 18" grid pattern rather than spaced every three inches in a straight line? If you have, what were the results?

Never tried it that way, but I don't plant bush beans - too much bending over. The pole beans I space ~10" apart on a line close to some sort of trellis - I use cattle panels.

Great yields that way but they still turn into an impenetrable mess by the end of the growing season.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

I like pole beans but I have problems with Green June bugs and Japanese beetles. And yes, they get into an absolute tangled mess. In spite of the lack of room I am going to try bush beans again.