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Runner bean trench

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  Posted by whatalottie (U9072847) on Friday, 30th December 2011

  It's usual to fill the runner bean trench with kitchen waste, a sort of open compost. Do we do it this way because runner beans don't like growing in nitrogen rich soil (they make their own) and 'raw' compost removes nitrates from the soil?
  
  If this the case manure is not such a good idea because it's nitrogen rich?
  
  I would appreciate your views
  
  Thanks, and a happy new year,
  Lottie
  

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  Posted by jo4eyes (U13654107) on Friday, 30th December 2011

  Hi Lottie.
  
  I try & do a bean trench across my small veg bed every year. Not sure of the actual chemical improvement, but my understanding is that the beans are greedy feeders & the resulting compost mix is 'richer' than just soil on its' own. I also line it with wet newspaper at planting time.
  
  I would have thought that any organic matter added to improve the soil, such as well rotted manure, would benefit the crop cf to not doing any extra additions.
  
  Someone else may know better. J.

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  Posted by tonygerm (U2113827) on Friday, 30th December 2011

  Hi , i allways put all my kitchen waste in the bean trench (note ; exept for potato peelings) i am not much of a chemist either but thought that all the waste material holds water aswell as other things .
  

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  Posted by jo4eyes (U13654107) on Friday, 30th December 2011

  Oh yes, the potato peelings! Finally noticed, oops, a potato plant growing almost under my bean/seetpea wigwam last year- got a handfull from it! J.

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