Crop Rotation/Or not - Beans
Broadway Offline
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Do any of you grow beans in the same place each year?
I'd hopefully like to grow them up the greenhouse frame again next year.
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I do! Lots of gardeners have permanent bean frames.
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Broadway Offline
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That's what I thought just wanted confirmation Veggie. Do you do anything special each year, trench or just a general tidy/feed?
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Danny my runners have been in the same place for 12 years, I fill the planting trench with dalek compost and give them a sprinkle of BFB.
They seem to do well,
I sometimes overwinter a few plants in pots in the GH keeping them in dry-ish compost they soon throw out shoots in early spring.
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(12-10-2020, 04:20 PM)Broadway Wrote: That's what I thought just wanted confirmation Veggie. Do you do anything special each year, trench or just a general tidy/feed?
Anything special, etc!!!
This is me you're asking not a proper gardener. Wink
I pull the weeds out and , if I remember, put a couple of chicken manure pellets in the planting holes. I start the plants in modules in the GH in new compost. That's it!
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Broadway Offline
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(12-10-2020, 04:37 PM)Bren Wrote: Danny my runners have been in the same place for 12 years, I fill the planting trench with dalek compost and give them a sprinkle of BFB. 
They seem to do well, 
I sometimes overwinter a few plants in pots in the GH keeping them in dry-ish compost they soon throw out shoots in early spring.
Cheers BrenSmile
Regards..........Danny Smile
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Broadway Offline
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(12-10-2020, 04:45 PM)Veggie Wrote:
(12-10-2020, 04:20 PM)Broadway Wrote: That's what I thought just wanted confirmation Veggie. Do you do anything special each year, trench or just a general tidy/feed?
Anything special, etc!!!
This is me you're asking not a proper gardener. Wink
I pull the weeds out and , if I remember, put a couple of chicken manure pellets in the planting holes. I start the plants in modules in the GH in new compost. That's it!
SmileSmileSmile
Regards..........Danny Smile
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This year I am trying an experiment. Weedy organic matter that I would rather not add to my compost dalek, I am just chucking it along the centre area between my been poles/canes. These are pretty substantial as they are held up by a greenhouse frame.
The theory is that as it rots down it will feed and keep the area I plant the beans. It won't be moved and should nourish the plants. Next year before planting I propose to pull some of the compost from the sides onto the sowing area and just keep adding to the central compost longhouse.
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Same place for me too, although its a bit like Triggers broom as the poles dont move but I change 50% of tbe trench soil with manure
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Lawrence Hills thought there would be no problem growing beans in the same place for several years with may be manure and lime being added when needed.
If it is a long enough run in full sun, he suggested growing 2/3rds of it beans and 1/3 tomatoes and rotating the tomatoes along the row so it is beans 2 years then tomatoes for a year.
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