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But here goes!
I am at present finding out what WILL and what WON'T grow in certain areas of my allotment.
Last year I grew onions and garlic in a couple of beds only to find out that I have onion white rot in the soil giving long term problems!
I then planted cabbage and calabrese in the same two beds and it has been attacked by clubroot, also giving long term problems! Both major fungal diseases and both in the same area.
I don't like to use monoculture but my options are limited in this area as I can't rotate crops.
Now.............here comes the cunning plan. While the cabbage and calabrese are still in there (clubroot doesn't usually kill it just severely retards!) I am going to dig a large hole at both ends of each bed (beds are about 4 foot wide by 12 foot long each) and concrete in a tall heavy post at each. These two beds will then become my runner/french bean and pea beds. I will rotate these two beds each year between tall peas and beans.
Necessity is the mother of invention and it just so happens that these two beds are in a position that casts the least shade on my other veg beds!
Come to think of it I had chocolate spot on the broad beans I grew on these two plots last year (which I can live with) and if I grew tatties there they'd probably get blighted. Grrrrrr
I suppose this could be likened to the Bermuda Triangle of my allotment as everything seems to vanish without a trace!
I am at present finding out what WILL and what WON'T grow in certain areas of my allotment.
Last year I grew onions and garlic in a couple of beds only to find out that I have onion white rot in the soil giving long term problems!
I then planted cabbage and calabrese in the same two beds and it has been attacked by clubroot, also giving long term problems!
Both major fungal diseases and both in the same area.I don't like to use monoculture but my options are limited in this area as I can't rotate crops.
Now.............here comes the cunning plan. While the cabbage and calabrese are still in there (clubroot doesn't usually kill it just severely retards!) I am going to dig a large hole at both ends of each bed (beds are about 4 foot wide by 12 foot long each) and concrete in a tall heavy post at each. These two beds will then become my runner/french bean and pea beds. I will rotate these two beds each year between tall peas and beans.
Necessity is the mother of invention and it just so happens that these two beds are in a position that casts the least shade on my other veg beds!
Come to think of it I had chocolate spot on the broad beans I grew on these two plots last year (which I can live with) and if I grew tatties there they'd probably get blighted. Grrrrrr
I suppose this could be likened to the Bermuda Triangle of my allotment as everything seems to vanish without a trace!
although some weeds act as long term host crops
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