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Old 19-06-2015, 01:01 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Feeding Runner Beans?


"Judith in England" wrote in message
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I have always fed mine: liquid feed every couple of weeks.

I have just watched two videos on runner beans: both said not to feed them.

What do others do please?


It depends entirely one how you have prepared the ground in the first
place. Traditionally, a trench is taken out in the Autumn where next
years runner beans are to go. Into this trench all the Autumn vegetable
waste is placed and then covered with fine soil for the winter. When
the beans are planted on this in the late Spring, they require no
additional feed. If you have not prepared a trench for your beans,
then they will need regular feeds throughout their growing season.

Phil (where I have done all the right things and the weather is 'pants')
Northern Highlands of Scotland