problems with pole beans

[tuttamatta]

I've being growing Romano and Super Marconi pole beans for 3 or 4 years in my backyard and I am sun challenged because of big trees around my property, but I've done O.K.
This year I decided to take on a plot at local Community gardens but my pole beans are doing worse there than my own backyard.
If the leaves were eatable I would be doing great!!!!!!!
It looks like I am growing more leaves than beans, the same for squash, more leaves than anything else!
I was told that the dirt was compost, but I found out that it does not hold water very well.
What can I add to it to get some fruit?
My tomatoes are doing just o.k., not great.
It is clear that I'm missing something important here, I may have more sun than in my backyard but something else is lacking.
Any help out there?
I really would appreciate your input.

[Medbury Gardens]

You mentioned pole beans, are they runner bean phaseolus coccineus or is it common/climber/ bean phaseolus vulgaris.The climber is annual and self fertile, where the runner is a perennial and is what called an open pollenate, by bees,bumble bees flys etc.This may be the problem as bumble bees are the main pollenater for runners and squash,if there are only a few about =poor crop.
Richard