When i first had my allotment 5 years ago i read a book how to do it. It helped me to arrange my beds as follows: Legumes followed by Brassicca's, then onions and roots and then potatoes. It said that using this rotation i would only need to manure one bed per year=brassicca's.
I quickly realised i also need to add manure to my potatoes and i have now found out the hungry feeders are the legumes. Also after five years i've had a rubbish onion crop.
Would i be better to manure the whole lot in autumn every year or would this be too much? What do you all do? How often do you manure?
All except the roots, if I can get it. Brassicas from choice. Legumes like the damp feet from a good humus content rather than the nitrogen per se..
Quotei would only need to manure one bed per year=brassicca's
Seems a bit odd to me I thought you had to fill a whole trench for the beans. Mind you I think I over did it this year, seem to have far too many leaves, and not enough beans.
Give them a tomato feed... it could help, or a layer of comfrey leaves... to encourage fruit and flowers, sounds like they have too much nitrogen. :-\