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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.

Suggestions?

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com

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: 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.
:
: Suggestions?
:
: Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com

I would let the weather get at it and hoe it over to clear any annual weeds
in the spring

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"Steve Harris" wrote in message
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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've put winter spuds in mine.

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In article ,
(Robert) wrote:

I would let the weather get at it

I should have perhaps said that it's loose and sandy rather than clay
and lumps.

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com

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In article , . (Sad
Sid) wrote:

I've put winter spuds in mine.

You have a polytunnel?

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com

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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