Steve Harris wrote in message ...
I've prepared a plot for next year's runner beans (trenching, etc) and
am wondering what to do with it over the winter.

I could of course just leave it bare.

I looked at green manures/cover crops but the only one I could sow now
is Field Beans which doesn't seem a very good idea.

My father always used to put his compostable stuff into the trench that
he had dug, so that there was some there ready for spring. I seemed to
work well, he also lined the trench with old newspapers.

Mike
www.british-naturism.org.uk