Hello all, I am Donny

[Donny]

Hi all

My name is Donny and I am happy to have found this forum as I am a keen gardener.

I am eagerly waiting potting season to plant a load of heritage seeds I have and because nowadays I often use dried beans in my cooking, I plan to grow a load to keep me going all year.

I look forward to chatting to you and sharing ideas.

Donny

[FionaH]

Hiya, welcome to the Vine

[veggiechicken]

Hello Donny and welcome. Have you planted any broad beans yet?

[Donny]

Hi Veggiechicken, no I never do till spring, I have garlic and wintering onions in though.

[Glutton4...]

Hello, and welcome to the madhouse!

[donnakebab]

Welcome Donny. Do you have a good sized garden or an allotment? Either way you'll find plenty of advice here.

[Munch]

Hi Donny

Welcome to the vine, loverly bunch of peeps here.

It was my first year of growing beans this year and grow Borlotti bean and dried them for cooking, I have filled a litre jar

I look forward to any tip you may have as I plan to grow lots more varieties next year.

[Donny]

Hey all, thankyou for the nice welcome words.

Munch, I have had great success growing lots of different type beans by making a leaf trench. I am half way doing mine as I have a patch 16feet x 36 feet in my garden, I did a trench the length of the run and make it wide enough to accommodate how many rows I plan to put in, dig to about 8 inches layered with news paper on the bottom, and fill the trench with autumn leaves, veg peelings and the like, cover over and leave till planting time, by which you should have a feast waiting for your seedlings and it also holds a lot of moisture so the plant never goes dry.

Works every year.

Donny

[chris]

Welcome to the forum, Donny. You'll get on with the fellow bean addicts here

[Donny]

Thanks Chrismarks, I think so too.
Cant wait till I have 50 plus postings as I love to share my spare seed and never ask for a return parcel.

[Bren In Pots]

Hello and welcome to the vine Donny

[chris]

What (heritage) beans do you grow?

[Donny]

I have a 20 year strain of broad bean, trail of tears, Aquilon and Czar.But thats just beans..

Not a lot but adding a few others soon.

[Jeanied]

Welcome to the vine Donny - it sounds like you will fit right in!

[chris]

Just wondered, as I've a few beans to try, wondered if they were the same