Runner Beans - Same Place Every Year?

Just thinking ahead about growing runner beans on my plot and making a permanent frame work for runner beans (there are lots of permanent frames on our site).............but then I got to thinking that its best to rotate what you grow and where you grow it.

Would I be ok in making a permanent frame or should I be looking at making a frame that can
be moved around and therefore the runner beans are not grown in the same place all the time?

 

Same site is fairly common. I move mine around so that they are part of the crop rotation - but only for the benefit of other crops, not the beans themselves.

If you are going to make a fixed location frame then I think the best style I have seen is what I know as a "Munti" frame. Pretty sure @JWK has one, so there are probably pictures on here.

 

I grew runner beans successfully in the same location for about 15 years using standard bamboo cane structures and the only reason I moved them was because voles started burrowing along the rows of plants, eating the remaining bean seeds (runner seeds stay below ground, French bean seeds rise above ground) which killed the plants. I then tried a few different locations and the most successful, vole-free place is where I've grown my runners for the last 10 years.

 

That's useful to know for when I get my veggie patch up and running as voles run riot in my garden.

 

Some years ago when I was on my old plot the chap next to me always grew his runner beans in the same place,but what he did was dig a deep trench and put all his cabbage stalks into this trench plus any other garden rubbish that was too rough to compost.He did this as soon as he had finished with present runner bean crop,never had any problems with this way and also did well on the show bench.

 

Similar to everyone else , after they had finished and I had taken down the canes I would dig out a trench and over the Autumn Winter fill it with all sorts apart from twigs and large pieces of wood then a sprinkle of Fish blood and bone and fill in about late Feb 1st week in march for it to all settle worked a treat

 

Thanks everyone for the advice, after 8 months my allotment is now taking shape and this will be
my first full season, and with everyones advice I just wanted to get everything as right as
possible.

I suppose that this is another topic, but now searching for the best beans to sow....also
@JWK thats a great idea for a frame and might just give that a go

Other images I found looking for a frame..

https://www.google.com/search?q=run...tHfDT7Aa534HgAg&ved=0CE4QsAQ&biw=1280&bih=835

 

They are perrenials too, if you can protect them from frost

 

@shiney

I read with interest your post here:

http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/runner-beans.53406/#post-719376

But you didn't say what variety they were please

 

The Munty frame originated here:

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=50801.0

 

I think the [ideal] direction it faces is important @JWK? Forgotten whether the slope of the roof should face South, or if it is some other orientation?