Well, we had a magnificent bean run this year, from the earliest broad beans to the runner beans, which are still going strong; by the way. The Rakker, the Blauhilde and the Yellow Spek bean wigwams have all been taken down now, the area has been weeded and raked and sown- in with two types of “green manure”. That pile of bean vines will later be laid-down on the beds as a mulch-dekking for the winter. The work area from another angle shows an adjacent bed already planted in with green manure, which is coming along nicely and this bean bed which has its new rows planted in with stick markers at the ends of the rows. While the runner beans are very dependable and are the last to stop “giving”, their flavour isn’t our favourite. Next year we are planning to not grow them and replace them with snijbonen perhaps. We shall see. We tried some yellow snijbonen this year, and they were oké. Yes, we shall see.
You're ahead of me on clearing up the garden for fall. I only had a start last night. What are you using as your cover crop? I like Yard long and Asparagus beans. Have you grown those before @Sjoerd? I find them very tasty. Snijbonen are Snap beans which I can take or leave but I do like the yellow snap beans because they are mild tasting and they seem to soak up butter better than the green snap beans. That just might be only my tasted buds talking. Others may not feel the same. I am going to grow those yellow snap beans next spring.
Annie—I use Phacelia and Borage as green manure. They grow fast and dissolve quickly. One can work it in or mulch with it. I don’t know what asparagus beans are, but the yard long beans do not grow here out of the greenhouse. I am thinking of growing yellow snap beans next season.
