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Was browsing for something else and found this ;

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0eiq_HXWs8M

New one on me might give it a go

These tips were on the same page;

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yNLrPb4100Y

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I have a Gooseberry Standard on my patio and last year it gave plenty of fruit to the pigeons.
It looks a bit like the ones in this article.
https://herbidacious.calamus.graphics/2010/05/11/standard-gooseberries/

How do I net it?  Can I just drape the net over it and tie it at the base?  Would this damage it?  Any better ideas?

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So I’m building raised beds. Ive been using manure to fill them but have now reached the end of the good stuff! I have partially composted manure left and wondered about using that to half/three quarters fill a raised bed, then used brought compost for the top layer. Ive never really used bean trenches etc for runners but I thought this seemed like a similar principle. Do you think this would work or will the manure still composting take nutrients away~?
Thanks! Lovely weather makes me think that planting of my beans is not too far away...

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I always sow all climbing and French beans  directly in the ground and that works well here.  I grow a selection of different beans -  Borlotti, Kew Blue, a  haricot  for drying, a standard dwarf French bean, a wonderful North Carolina one from Galina, and an English runner bean.  All are from my own saved seed, except the runner beans which I buy each year in the UK, one of the widely available ones, from Wilko or whatever.  This year I happened to buy Enorma from Sutton. 
i sowed them at the same time, in the same quarter of the veg patch.
All beans have had 99% germination, with the exception of the bought ones, of which only two germinated.
I notice that the seed, bought in February, is from  2017, sow by 2020.  Not too impressive.