Tomato rotation question

[Sylvan]

Silly question, but I know you can't plant tomatoes where you've had strawberries and I know strawberries are related to roses, but can't remember whether blackcurrants are...

We have a tomato that supposedly "doesn't like heat" (Emerald Apple). On the offchance that we may actually have a hot summer (well you never know ) I thought I ought to put it down at the bottom, north of the plum tree and west of the philadelphus, where it should stay cool. Trouble is there was a blackcurrant in that spot for a couple of years. Should I plant the tomato in a Morrisons bucket or can I just put it straight into the bed?

[Sylvan]

Grumpy says Americans probably don't actually mean the same thing as I do when they say "heat" (For that matter neither do Southerners ) so it ought to be safe wherever we put it. Does anyone know?

[Alison]

I wouldn't worry about it at all but maybe that's me

[zazen999]

I've got plum and cherry trees in last year's strawb patch, and have also put some tomatoes in there. I'm not at all worried about anything with the tomatoes apart from blight. As we didn't get any last year, it's worth a punt.

[Sylvan]

Thanks.

We had blight last year. The tomatoes were in bottomles buckets semi-sunk into beds. Am I safe to put tomatoes in the same beds (having removed the buckets - and the compost in them!) or do I need to put them in buckets with bottoms (in case we missed any roots - is it possible the blight spores would be lurking in them?)

(Running out of compost...)

[taff]

apparently the spores only survive on tubers or infected seeds, so as long as you haven't got any of those nearby, you should be ok to plant them wherever you like

[Shadylane]

is it possible the blight spores would be lurking in them?)

I don't think so. Blight supposedly only survives on living plant material. I reckon you'll be fine. Bung em in.

[Sylvan]

Ta muchly xx