On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:30:34 +0100, Hugh Jampton
wrote:

I've been growing them for years - no problems.

My neighbour (new to veg growing) tells me that an *expert* in a garden
centre told him that he should leave the roots of his runner beans in the
ground at the end of the season and they will grow again next year up the
same canes - he won't have to plant new ones.

I've suggested that he's misheard what he's been told and probably he's
just been told to leave the roots in the ground. But *no* - he insists that
what he's told me is correct !

Can't be so - can it ? (not that I'd ever dream of doing it)

TIA.


If you look closely at bean or pea roots you will see tiny nitrogen
nodules... so cutting the tops off leaves the nitrogen there to be
absorted directly into the soil.
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