crop rotation

[Teabag]

I've been reading..

And got myself confused.

Do you rotate after each crop is out OR by the year?

I've mixed up my beds (first year and planted as I dug/pleased)

Also, anything other than leeks to go in after first/second spuds?

Actually, balls to that.

What's your crop rotation plan? Pretty please.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Here are the "Basic's" Explained!

Not a major issue early days, but is good practice to keep an healthy balance!

Video Guide: Practise Crop Rotation | gardenersworld.com

[Thelma Sanders]

Monty's method is fairly basic, with no allowance for things like courgettes or squash. Plus nowadays the idea that peas/beans leave Nitrogen behind in the soil has more or less been discounted.

My method is much more simple, but covers anything you may want to grow - just never follow one group of veg, with more of the same thing.
That means never follow say, a cabbage with a cauliflower. Or a pea with a bean.

The only one I really try to avoid is following brassicas with potatoes, because I lime where the brassicas are going, and potatoes don't like the lime, it causes scab!
(I tend to follow potatoes with Spring cabbage or leeks.)

Other than that grow whichever crops you like, rather than ones that rotations tell you to grow

[Teabag]

Thank you both.

I think that's where I'm getting confused, I have corn, pumpkin and courgette and they're not all in one block/bed. Same for onions and garlic both in different beds. Beans and peas in different beds too.

I'm actually wondering whether to not plant anything except a green manure after each crop is out for this year and do proper roational blocks/bed next year. (and not all jumbled as I have done this year)

[bario1]

I've mixed up my beds (first year and planted as I dug/pleased)

Sounds like a reasonable approach to me. I don't bother with a formal rotation, i just try not to plant the same crop in the same place year after year... except toms, which always have to go in the polytunnel beds.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

I did say "Basic" I hasten to add!

So Yeah! as Thelma say's, and my theory too, is just not to grow the same crop in the same place the following season once harvested, soil "Tickled" and adjusted for the next one!

Keep these basic principles in mind, and your on a "Winner"

[Teabag]

Thanks again! I get information overload sometimes and it all gets blurred. I think I'll be planting up 2 short beds with permanent crops (asparagus/artichoke/rhubarb and making a raspberry patch of one) and just using 3 larger beds for the crop rotation.. it'll be easier on my brain

[Snadger]

Thank you both.

I think that's where I'm getting confused, I have corn, pumpkin and courgette and they're not all in one block/bed. Same for onions and garlic both in different beds. Beans and peas in different beds too.

I'm actually wondering whether to not plant anything except a green manure after each crop is out for this year and do proper roational blocks/bed next year. (and not all jumbled as I have done this year)

Jumbled up is good. We have allotments or gardens...............not farms!