Beans - All sorts - Soil Prep
I have saved some beans from this seasons pods and I would like to know
1.What do I need to do to the beds now...manure...make a .trench
2.Can some of them be grown in a 18" raised bed
These are the ones I have saved
Borlotti
Black Beans....Climbing French beans...maybe Purple Cascade
Dwarf Green Beans
Green Runner Beans
Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
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Newboy2, what a lot of us do is dig a trench now and keep throwing in vegetable matter such as kitchen waste and shredded garden prunings, pulled-up annual weeds and the like, often adding shredded newspaper and cardboard. At the end of the winter, we cover the open trench with soil and by the time it comes to bean-planting time, it will have all rotted down and will help to hold moisture deep down which bean roots love.
You can grow just about anything in raised beds with the possible exception of the taller brassicas as those need firm soil to do well. Beans usually thrive providing you keep up with the watering.
Does this apply to broad beans too please?
Broad beans are much less fussy than runner and other climbing beans and I have no trouble growing those with minimal soil preparation.
Exactly what I wanted to hear, thank you
BTG
That seems very much like a plan......thanks
Im going to sow carrots and a couple of dwarf broad beans in the RB