Why you shouldn't Put fresh chicken manure in a bean trench

[fishpond]

Why you shouldn't Put fresh chicken manure in a bean trench.

Because foxy and friends have decided to excavate all my climbing beans

[Nicos]

Ouch!!!

Thanks for the warning...I'd never really have thought about them doing that

[Samurailord]

One of my plot neighbours always uses blood, fish and bone when planting out his onions, but every year his onions are dug up and carried all over the site by the foxes.

This year he has enclosed the entire bed with three foot high chicken wire - and so far it's working.

Andy

[Two_Sheds]

... and because chicken manure is an injection of nitrogen.

Beans make their own nitrogen. Too much nitrogen gives lush leafy growth at the expense of pods. If you feed them at all, give them hi-potash when they are setting beans (but only if they're struggling to do so)

[alldigging]

You're supposed to make the trench in the depths of January.. so Mr Foxy can have a dig at it then and it'll be fine when it's time to plant the beans out.