Bean trenches are one of those traditional garden techniques that seem to have lost a bit of favour. The idea is that you dig a trench, line it with newspaper, fill it with your kitchen waste, before covering with soil and planting your beans - so adding lots of fertility and moisture-retention to the soil. Sounds like a good idea but a bit of hard work though, especially as some gardeners recommend starting in the autumn and filling it throughout the winter.
I've decided to try a quick fix with the contents of my
Bokashi bin. The fermented kitchen waste is absolutely packed full of nutrients and micro-organisms, or EMs (
Effective Micro-organisms) will rot down quickly and hopefully form the perfect growing medium for my
heritage seed swapped bean seeds.
Bean trenches are one of those traditional garden techniques that seem to have lost a bit of favour. The idea is that you dig a trench, line it with newspaper, fill it with your kitchen waste, before covering with soil and planting your beans - so adding lots of fertility and moisture-retention to the soil. Sounds like a good idea but a bit of hard work though, especially as some gardeners recommend starting in the autumn and filling it throughout the winter.
I've decided to try a quick fix with the contents of my Bokashi bin. The fermented kitchen waste is absolutely packed full of nutrients and micro-organisms, or EMs (Effective Micro-organisms) will rot down quickly and hopefully form the perfect growing medium for my heritage seed swapped bean seeds.
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I effectively do this with all the veg I grow in pots: Layer of Bokashi, layer of worm compost and layer of normal compost. Tomatoes, beans and spinach have been grown like this for the last 2 years and I've had a great crop from all.
Started some raised beds this year and they have been done the same way (so fingers crossed).
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