When your broad beans have reached the end, don't dig them up, but cut the plants off at soil level as that leaves the roots with their nitrogen-rich nodules in the ground.
Now you can dibber the holes in the empty bean bed and drop your leeks into them (you may need to pull off some over-bushy root to get them to drop right down in). Then don't back fill with soil, just top up the hole to the brim with water.
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Hi Heskie, although I've not been posting, I do still check in with my favourite blogs and, as usual, you have timely advice for the veg patch! I will check my beans straight away!
It seems to have been a year for pests in abundance - black fly all over my hanging baskets, ants absolutely *everywhere*! ... and red mite in the chicken house (it's now been thrown on the bonfire & an eglu bought, as I've never had mites in my other eglu hen house!)
Hope you are having a pest-free summer?
Willow x
I will definitely share this tip with my mom and my mother-in-law, as they do lot of gardening. Beans and leeks are my favorite vegetables too. And then when I get my own garden one day, I will remember that. Anna :)
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