Permanent Bean beds

**roitelet** · 13-07-2015, 05:13 PM

Well my Dad had beans in the same place for as long as I can remember. He dug a trench in the autumn and threw all the kitchen waste in it over the winter. Come spring he covered it and in went the beans. He always had a good crop.

**Greenleaves** · 13-07-2015, 05:17 PM

My beans move very seldomly, I also have found no discernible difference to having or not having a trench....just feed as I grow

**crannman** · 13-07-2015, 05:29 PM

my bean frame in same place for 3yrs I dig in plenty of compost and rotted manure

**Martin H** · 13-07-2015, 06:20 PM

Just to be different, I grow my runner beans in a different place each year. I don't do anything special to prepare the ground, just bury bottomless 2 litre plastic bottles, neck end down, to water into. I reckon they fix their own nitrogen so they just need lots of water, so I fill up the bottles every time I go to the allotment. They do just fine. Doing it this way gives me more rotation options for the crops that actually benefit.

**Alison** · 13-07-2015, 07:05 PM

My dad used to do a bean trench every year in the same place and we were disappearing under beans every summer. I however do rotate as there are some things I think it's very important to move along and by rotating everything I can leave the ground four years before I grow something again.

**Bren In Pots** · 13-07-2015, 07:44 PM

Mines been in the same place for 4 years now, i don't have a lot of space in my garden so the odd shaped area behind the garage works out well for my runner beans.

**Potstubsdustbins** · 13-07-2015, 07:54 PM

A friend of mine grows in the same spot year after year. Come spring he will dig in a load of grow more and then feed occasionally through out the season.

**Snadger** · 13-07-2015, 08:27 PM

NTG had a way of growing in the same place each year without detriment to other crops. He had two stout poles concreted in at each end of a trench. The trench was lined with polythene with holes punched in it. It was filled with garden/kitchen waste during the winter and levelled with a covering of soil prior to planting.
After cropping, what was by then, compost, was removed to other part of plot and the whole process started again.

No build up of pests or diseases or nutrient deficiency because it was a new bean bed every year on the same site.

I tried it for a couple of years but decided it was too much work and a wigwam can be placed anywhere.

**Bigmallly** · 13-07-2015, 08:46 PM

Old kid on the next plot to me had a permanent wigwam which he used to grow cracking runners. He had his plot for 30+ years, not sure how old the wigwam was..............

**Nannysally99** · 14-07-2015, 08:59 AM

We have had the same bean patch for over 20 years. Since we have a compost bin, they get a nice lot of that dug in.
Love our beans

**alldigging** · 14-07-2015, 09:29 AM

One of the old timers on the nearby allotment site used to have a permanent bean bed. With a fantastic climbing net for them. Worked a treat.
Digging and filling a trench always gets you good results and as you're adding new stuff every year it's probably as good as moving them about in terms of disease avoidance.

**muddled** · 14-07-2015, 12:57 PM

I do what Snadger said NTG did....

Bean trench same place year after year, filled over winter and then distributed to other beds in the autumn clear up and started again with peelings from home and manure.

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