Strange runners roots

viettaclark · « **on:** March 11, 2012, 01:11 »

I was digging over my runners bed and the roots I pulled up were huge woody knobbly things, completely different from the roots last year that were quite fibrous with lots of nitrogen nodes.
Is it because I left them in over Winter?
The crop last year was blooming marvellous so the plants weren't diseased or anything.

digalotty · « **Reply #1 on:** March 11, 2012, 01:21 »

i found the same after leaving mine over winter this year

Trillium · « **Reply #2 on:** March 11, 2012, 03:54 »

Very likely. They do need lots of time to develop those nodules. I just chop them up a bit and leave them in place.

JayG · « **Reply #3 on:** March 11, 2012, 09:19 »

As far as I know runner beans always produce large tuberous roots (they are herbaceous perennials and can be grown as such, although they have to be lifted and protected in winter in this country so I suspect few people bother to do that.)

I dig them out, chop and compost because as VC has observed they take a long time to rot down if left in situ.

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