Multiple Plot Holders

[SarzWix]

Can I pick your brains please?
I'm trying to plan what's going where this year, and although I did have the rotations worked out on an individual plot basis I'm now looking at how to spread things out over 3 plots.
How do others organise things? Do you treat each plot seperately or them all together as one? Or is one plot for fiddly stuff and one plot for the 'stick it in and leave it' stuff?
Two (A + B) of ours are laid out in raised beds of around 3m x 1.2m, 7 beds on each plot, plus greenhouses and fruit. The other (C) has 6 very big beds (unmeasured as yet, but about 3 times the size of the raised ones)) with tiny paths between. Plots B + C are next door to each other, A is at the other end of the site.

Any suggestions of how to utilise them in the most efficient way gladly received

[lynda66]

see i would have one for chooks and ducks, one for fruit, and the other for veg

[SarzWix]

We're not allowed livestock

[lynda66]

oh yeah damn forgot plead with them lots??

ok then more room for fruit, which i'd put on the plot thats apart from the others.

then have half of the second one for yearly fruit, melons etc stuff that needs looking at regularly, fruit bushes just get on with it

and the other 1 1/2 for veg just think of all them spuds and carrots

not really helping am i lol

[SarzWix]

oh yeah damn forgot plead with them lots??

ok then more room for fruit, which i'd put on the plot thats apart from the others.

then have half of the second one for yearly fruit, melons etc stuff that needs looking at regularly, fruit bushes just get on with it

and the other 1 1/2 for veg just think of all them spuds and carrots

not really helping am i lol

I definitely want more fruit, but I can't afford to buy any this year. There's some raspberries I can dig up, they're far too crammed in, so they should fill another bed.
I've got enough spuds to fill a huge bed, plus about 2 small ones. I want to plant enough onions to fill another huge bed. Apart from that, I'll be growing lots of;
carrots,
parsnips
peas,
beans (broad, french & runner)
sweetcorn (ordinary & minipop)
beetroot
swedes
cabbages
sprouts
broccoli
pickling & spring onions
leeks
salad stuff (lettuces & leaves)

(I've probably forgotten something, but that's the main of it )

[Snadger]

I have two, next to each other. I divide each plot roughly in half and this gives me a four year rotation. Fruit trees are acommodated up the boundary fences.
Trouble is that because of soil with clubroot and onion white rot in it I have made permanent beds for legumes this year and along with the two beds I alternate between carrots and alliums it gets rather complicated.
Chuck in a chook run or two and it gets VERY complicated.

My solution is to go for the Ornamental Kitchen garden and just shift stuff around a bit each year.

In your case sarah, I would treat the seperate plot as a seperate entity and the two together as one plot! Just my two penny worth tho!

[janeyo]

Ankle must be on the mend with all this talk of multiple lottie management

Just jealous as I've not got one. Hmmpf

[SarzWix]

Cheers Snadger I think I need to get pencil and paper out... Because the rotations of the 3 plots don't match up, and on the 2 we just got (A at one end, C at the other) there have been crops left to rot in the ground which means I have to be extra careful. I think this year will have to be 'try it and see', and try to rearrange the structure and boundaries of the 2 next to each other to make it easier to get between the 2 (can't get a wheelbarrow through!). There's some work to be done this year

[Hans Mum]

i keep one of mine for all fruit and the other for veggies....

[SarzWix]

Ankle must be on the mend with all this talk of multiple lottie management

Just jealous as I've not got one. Hmmpf

Errrm, noooo, still looking at at least 2 months, and thats assuming the bone has hardened by my next appt
But planning is something I can do, well, attempt to do!

I hope your name comes to the top of the list soon hon, I'd share mine if you lived here

[lottie dolly]

i have a double plot last year was first season on it,what i did was,all the fruit in 1 area permenant,allowed space for the poly grow house this year,an area for compost bins,and a 3ft flower boarder at the fronts,the rest i have measured,and devided up into a 4 year rotation,but i do have large plots,each of the 4 give me 46ft x 10ft,these work as 1 potatos,2 roots,3brasicas,4 legumes,with things that not bothered by what bed they in,will go where ever the space is,as long as they are different every year,i have made a plane of what is where,with what is on each bed per rotation,it helps to plan the forth coming season,worked very well last year,so cannot see why it will not in future,i have found so far this is the best way for me to keep track of whats what,without getting into a flap every year about what goeth where,sounds sad i know,but so far is working,