Runner/broad bean crop rotation

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Runner/broad bean crop rotation
« on: March 06, 2010, 11:51 »
Hi,

Have I dreamt it, or is it the case that runner and broad beans can be grown in the same place in successive years?
Cheers
Steve

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Re: Runner/broad bean crop rotation
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2010, 11:57 »
I know that a lot of the 'old boys' grow their runner beans in the same place each year, but the digging of a bean trench effectively changes the soil beneath them each year IMO, so although the beans haven't moved..the soil has :)

I know nowt about broad beans though, but thought they did move  :blink:

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Re: Runner/broad bean crop rotation
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2010, 15:01 »
I move mine round with my normal rotation, but I only train them up Bamboo canes. If I had a proper Munty Frame I'd want to leave then in the same place each year I reckon.

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Re: Runner/broad bean crop rotation
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2010, 17:23 »
I move mine round with my normal rotation, but I only train them up Bamboo canes. If I had a proper Munty Frame I'd want to leave then in the same place each year I reckon.
why not try hazel,coppiced from the woods

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Re: Runner/broad bean crop rotation
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2010, 17:47 »
What's that got to do with rotation?
Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?

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Re: Runner/broad bean crop rotation
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2010, 17:53 »
What's that got to do with rotation?
kristen said she uses bamboo,all the way from china :nowink:

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Re: Runner/broad bean crop rotation
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2010, 17:55 »
I'm sure HE'd be pleased to note your advice. :tongue2:

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Re: Runner/broad bean crop rotation
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2010, 17:57 »
Not necessarily from China either. My bamboo is in my back garden  :D
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Re: Runner/broad bean crop rotation
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2010, 17:58 »
I'm sure HE'd be pleased to note your advice. :tongue2:
Local and free :lol:sorry for the gender slip :(

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Re: Runner/broad bean crop rotation
« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2010, 17:59 »
Not necessarily from China either. My bamboo is in my back garden  :D
not as nice as hazel ::)



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