Brassica crop rotation advice

[sherlockofsheff]

Hi

I have been sorting out my crop rotation and sowing / harvesting plan and just wanted a bit of advice with regards to late & early brassicas.

My 4 year plan goes:

1. Legumes - 2. Brassicas - 3. Onions / Potatoes - 4. Roots / Fruits

What I intend to do is have my broad beans & mange tout out by August and plant overwintering brassicas such as kale, sprouting broccoli, winter cabbage.

My dilemma comes the next year. The kale etc will be out around March and I intend to follow these with summer brassicas such as calabrese, romanesco & summer cabbages in April / May

I will be raising all my plants from seed.

Is this something that would be ok or would you recommend against it.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Steve

[burnie]

I wouldn't put brassicas in the same bed, however the main threat is club root, is it in your area? If not you might get lucky and have no problems.

[Thelma Sanders]

As long as you don't put the follow on brassicas in exactly the same place that the Kale was growing in, you could just say that your brassica bed starts when the legumes come out.

What a lot of people do here, is put their kale and spring cabbage in after the early & second early potatoes come out. That way there's always a year's break between brassicas of any kind.

A handful of lime at planting time makes club root less likely. Remember that Swede are brassicas if you are going to grow them.

[burnie]

and Radishes too.

[Bigmallly]

I could well be talking out of my derriere here but the way I see it is advances have been made with regards to disease resistant seeds & strains, I personally don't see the need to rotate crops as they did in rary's day......................I try not to plant like for like in the same area but am not fussed if I do. Diseased plants would obviously be taken into consideration.