crop rotation ( or not?)

[hamsterqueen]

still waiting for my son to clear the ground for my veg garden extension.

I remember reading on the vine that beans can be grown in the same position each year, so have put up the bean sticks in a suitable place.

4 raised beds are in various stages of harvesting and I am bunging in stuff as space becomes free. This leaves me with a small amount of room for tomatoes (they grow fantastically in the ground here)..only problem is that I grew tomatoes last year in roughly the same spot

so -

will this be a problem?
do I need to add anything to the soil?

[womble]

I've grown tomatoes in the same soil for two years running with no problems.
Some fertiliser would be a good idea.

[hamsterqueen]

Ta!

That means i have room for a lot more tomatoes than I thought

[Alison]

Did you suffer with blight at all last year? If so I'd avoid that area and ideally rotate them around, however if they were healthy then I'd not worry about it for the odd year.

[womble]

No way blight spores would have survived last winter, but I agree, better to be safe than sorry.

[hamsterqueen]

touch wood we have never had blight here.....

[solway cropper]

touch wood we have never had blight here.....

I bet you have. That's why most seed potatoes are grown in Scotland.

Don't want to rain on everyone's parade but a new strain discovered in 2005 is even more virulent and damaging than the previous versions.

Let us now pray for dry summer