"Steve Harris" wrote in message
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(Jaques d'Altrades) wrote:

Store in a cool place in dry sand or peat over the winter, all in a
plastic sack or bucket. Don't let them freeze.

Interesting but my runners are not very healthy. I *think* it's
manganese deficiency. The older leaves get mottled between the veins. At
some stages it's quite pretty. at first, I thought it was Magnesium
deficiency and used the MgSO4 spray I fixed the tomatoes with but no
joy.

Apparently, it's a problem with alkaline soil and beans. They can't get
Mn out of such a soil and a foliar spray of Mn is the only way. Anyone
know of a source of Mn for a spray? Or should I acidify the plot?

I would have thought that an impossibility. There is no acidic counterpart
to lime as far as I know.

Franz