Crop rotation

[wellie]

Depends on the size of your growing space, and what you can logistically rotate. Many people have Onion Beds and Bean Trenches, for example, in the same location, year after year. Some of the best growers in the world advocate not rotating UNTIL you encounter a problem, so that your efforts are more concentrated on building up soil fertility for that particular crop. If you've got it, flaunt it. But in all honesty, until I'm as clever as them, I like to assess what's in my own mind and my own garden, using one crop's advantageous benefits to the next, and trying not to antagonise nature too much.

[binley100]

4 - spuds and a few outdoor tomatoes

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I always understood that potatoes and tomatoes don't make good bedfellows ,perhaps I'm wrong .

[Nes]

I always understood that potatoes and tomatoes don't make good bedfellows ,perhaps I'm wrong .

Isn't that because of the risk of passing blight from one infected crop to another? Last year, I kept the toms a couple of beds away from the pots, but wasn't badly affected by blight at all so I don't know whether it would have made any difference if I'd had a bad infection

[paula.berriman]

Hi

Just remember that you cant put your carrots and parsnips in previously manured beds or they will fork and not to plant your brassicas in the same place each year and not to retun them for at least 3.

Hope that helps

[Alison]

I always understood that potatoes and tomatoes don't make good bedfellows ,perhaps I'm wrong .

They're in the same rotation but different beds, there's 3 No 4' by 10' spud beds and a 4' by 6' tomato bed (although that one's not strictly dug as yet!). Rotated together as they're the same family.