RUNNER BEANS
LIKE SAME TREATMENT AS SWEET PEAS. • Runner beans are perennials, and if once sown and looked after they will last for years. Like French beans, they like good soils, and to be successful with them the best thing to do is to imitate the sweet pea grower and his trench. Make a trench about three feet wide and deep, and in the bottom put a layer of rotted manure, then some fresh loamy soil and continue until the trench is filled with new soil and manure. As each layer is put in, it should be trodden or rammed. These beans are deep-rooters, and the deeper and better the soil the longer they will continue to crop. The seeds should be sown so that the plants will stand at least a foot apart.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1940, Page 9
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