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@SDlilacs
Are the beans you are growing pole beans, or maybe a type of runner bean? Unless they're a bush bean, they do best grown up a trellis or on something like a "teepee" support; the plants will twine around the poles or trellis (they don't make tendrils to cling to the support the way squash and cucumbers do).
This is a photo of pole beans growing on trellis netting