Re: Runner Beans
Runner beans are grown on the allotment where I help out. I know nothing about the best way to grow them but I was asked to dig out a quite deep and wide trench in preparation for this year's crop.
The trench was lined with newspaper and over the next few weeks, it was filled with old cabbage cuttings, potato peelings and generally any waste that would decompose. Some compost too I think.
When all this was about a foot or more deep, the earth from the trench was shovelled in over the top. The bean poles will be erected here and this year's beans grown.
I'm told this will make a difference to the quality of the runner beans because the roots grow into the compost. I hope that's right because digging that trench and then shovelling the earth back in was damned hard work.