Thanks for the reply. Do you do that for the entire plot or just for beans?
By the way, fellow gardeners, when will you be sowing your last beans?
I have a packet of beans here that says they can be sown as late as late August for harvesting in September!
Anton
I have a long 150 feet 'Victorian house' garden, not allotment.
Plots are spread out over that area along with paths, patios, greenhouse, sheds, compost bins, rotary washing line, gravelled relaxing areas etc.
I have no grassed areas. But, we have a big gated rear grassed private access area that is shared by us all with vehicle access. Not that any of us have ever really used it for that (though some neighbours use it for access to their rear gardens for stored boats and motorhomes), except for large deliveries, skips and builders lorries/vans etc.
The bean plots I've mentioned, also have chard and sweetcorn growing in the summer to the sides of the beans. I grow rows of more beans, radish and beetroot where the broad beans were earlier.
Both these plots and their other crops are empty over winter and take the veg waste as I described.
Do throw some of my veg waste over the raised beds.
One is dedicated for first/second early potatoes (normally International Kidney, but this year Sally/Nicola) that when all dug up by mid summer have pots of Kale and Chard resting on the soil till late Autumn and then are free for the veg waste over winter.
Another raised bed is dedicated for my Charlotte potatoes that are all finished now. Sweetcorn is growing in there now, with lettuce in between the rows and half of the bed is leeks. That bed will be half free for till Spring as will still be picking leeks from it till then. So half of it gets veg some veg waste.
Third raised bed is half leek and half peas. Those leeks also stay in till Spring, but the peas are finished now and have never really grown anything else in that half as like it to remain soil, during summer and Autumn. But do scatter veg waste on it in the winter months before the pea seedlings go out again. I use that area in the Summer/Autumn as a soil only area to work on to wash out all sizes of large/small pots and trays that were used for growing seedlings in spring in the greenhouse and indoors. Making that area wet and dirty does not hurt and not dirtying anywhere else unnecessarily.
I put in some purple podded and blue lake french climbing beans about a week ago sowed direct and are six inches tall already.
Will be my last sowing of beans, but not seeing why a sowing through August will not work. You could always start them off in trays now and transplant them through late August to give them a better start.
Have never really found later sown beans do as well as the ones we are picking now, but its worth it for the extra crop.
