What not to put in a runner bean trench ??

[Minty]

Hi all, after making the mistake of planting onions next to my early peas(50 of the bu@@ers i have got to relocate tomorrow) i do not want to make a mess of my runner bean trench aswell.
I dug a 12 inch trench about a month ago and have been saving all my kitchen veg waste and have been adding it to the trench since then.
Is there anything i should definately NOT put in it ?????
Thanks Minty X

[phil the shed]

Hi all, after making the mistake of planting onions next to my early peas(50 of the bu@@ers i have got to relocate tomorrow) i do not want to make a mess of my runner bean trench aswell.
I dug a 12 inch trench about a month ago and have been saving all my kitchen veg waste and have been adding it to the trench since then.
Is there anything i should definately NOT put in it ?????
Thanks Minty X

"max branning" seems he ain't going to be rotting down just yet.

[Paul Wagland]

I would guess composted runner beans might be a bad idea... not sure that anything else would cause a problem. The traditional additive is a recently-dead cat...

[Minty]

"max branning" seems he ain't going to be rotting down just yet.

You got nothing better to do but watch soaps Phil ??

[Minty]

I would guess composted runner beans might be a bad idea... not sure that anything else would cause a problem. The traditional additive is a recently-dead cat...

Everything has gone in it, all kinds of veg including, onion, banana,whole carrots,potato peelings,and cabbage.
One worry is that i have heard that you can almost grow potatoes from peelings, really don`t want that.
Minty

[vicky]

Can I nominate my cat? Actually you could put daughter down there too...

[Paulottie]

I would guess composted runner beans might be a bad idea... not sure that anything else would cause a problem. The traditional additive is a recently-dead cat...

Imagines lamppost signs for lost cats in Paul's area!...I have buried roadkill rabbits or dead pets under grapevines or trees but they are a bit more long term eh.

I should put some straw of torn up newspaper i with it all Minty...Cats

[carlseawolf]

i beleve the theroy of a bean trench is to keep moisture in around the roots and a low nitrogen feed as it produces to much leafy growth instead of producing beans / peas.

I personally put in rabbit / guinia pig cage droppings and newspaper and straw plus kitchen waste and try to get the nitrogen / carbon ratio in the trench higher on the carbon side so it leaches nitrogen out of the soil to compost the mixture.
carbon material is cardboard , paper , straw and hay.
I'm also adding seaweed to mine but that's because i have a beach close by.

[deezyb]

Everything has gone in it, all kinds of veg including, onion, banana,whole carrots,potato peelings,and cabbage.
One worry is that i have heard that you can almost grow potatoes from peelings, really don`t want that.
Minty

Hey Minty...I've pretty much put in my trench what you have in yours...was not expecting to grow potatoes from peelings (like You!) - oh dear, maybe....? watch this space! no roadkill or cats in my trench

[crichmond]

I would guess composted runner beans might be a bad idea... not sure that anything else would cause a problem. The traditional additive is a recently-dead cat...

Cant see my nieghbor being too happy with me if they saw me burying thier cats in my garden Paul... Still it would make a change from them crapping in it (the cats that is)

[Pompeylottie]

Hi, I've obviously missed something - why cant you plant onions next to your peas?
Help!

[kirsty b]

"max branning" seems he ain't going to be rotting down just yet.

She dug him back up!!! Why?!

Ahem! Back to subject, I put the contents of the chook shed after I had cleaned it out and peelings from the kitchen

[Paulottie]

A lot of the old boys round here grow their beans in the same place every year. Goes against my logic, I have them as part of my rotation as a rule...Can't work it out. Any Ideas?

[Paulottie]

Pompeylottie....I looked up companion planting in Bob Flowerdew's bible...bad news: says peas and beans do badly with onions...Don't know why (except the shadeing issues..onions hate that)..he also says that beans hate onions khol rabi and sunflowers.

[Don Vincenzo]

Can I nominate my cat? Actually you could put daughter down there too...

.....and my son and my................
Don Vincenzo