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    Can anyone advise me on crop rotation please? I'm planning to have 4 areas - potatoes, roots (onions, turnips, beets, carrots, leeks & garlic), brassicas (cabbage, sprouts, psb) and beans (french, runners, broad beans, peas & mange tout) along with fitting in bits like sweetcorn, tomatoes & spinach where ever I can fit them in. My headache is that each book I've read tells me a different order, i.e. potatoes follow brassicas, or roots follow beans and I'm getting in such a tizz My other problem is that I manured virtually the whole plot, and I read the other day that neither roots nor potatoes should go in recently manured ground
    I've already got my onions & garlic in the groud (unmanured bit), and I've got another bed of brassicas that will probably be empty come March/April (also unmanured) and I've got a bit that measures about 5ft wide x 14ft long that is also unmanured. What should ideally go in after the brassicas? One of the bits that I manured had potatoes in it last year so again I'm not sure what I should grow here?? The rest of the plot has had a good manuring and is currently empty so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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    Mine goes:
    [manure the ground then grow] potatoes
    beans
    [lime the ground then grow] brassicas
    roots

    Everything else goes in where I can fit it.

    The trick is knowing that for example - swede is not a root, but a brassica.

    Try searching Dual Cropping on here [Snadger's method] for year round crops.

    Carrots shouldn't go in recently manured ground - potatoes are fine with this - in fact they love it.

    Image is my plan for 2009.

    Just don't follow one crop with another of the same family.
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    • #3
      The spud's will love the manure no problem carrots keep away untill next year inunmanured plot or else they grow fork's with the root's chasing the manure just keep a record it do's not hurt for brasica's to follow spud's i am sure if you search about on here you will find rotation help....jacob
      What lies behind us,And what lies before us,Are tiny matters compared to what lies Within us ...
      Ralph Waide Emmerson

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      • #4
        Thanks to both of you. I got my lottie last June, so this will be my first full year of growing and I want to try and cram in as much as possible. I've put in 4 raised beds as well - 2 of em have asparagus in them and the other two are currently empty - I'll probably use them for salad stuf.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Novice Gardener View Post
          I'm planning to have 4 areas - potatoes, roots (onions, turnips, beets, carrots, leeks & garlic), .
          Um, onions/leeks/garlic aren't roots. They is alliums, but it doesn't really matter much.
          As Zazen said, turnip is a brassica.
          I grow my roots in the same bit as my spuds (and call them all Roots)

          There are many different plans & ideas.

          This might help you: Understanding and using crop rotation in the garden
          All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
            Um, onions/leeks/garlic aren't roots. They is alliums, but it doesn't really matter much.
            As Zazen said, turnip is a brassica.
            I grow my roots in the same bit as my spuds (and call them all Roots)

            There are many different plans & ideas.

            This might help you: Understanding and using crop rotation in the garden

            Thanks two sheds, I've got sooooooo much to learn, but am loving every minute of it

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            • #7
              If it's any help - my Garden Organic tutor said - just write down what you are going to grow - in families - with what, and stick to it. Just rotate the same things together - in any order, and you'll be there.

              For example - my plot goes clockwise in the plan - so the pots move to the space that the onions were last year. The carrots aren't listed, but they are always grown with the onions, as are the beetroot. Everything else follows clockwise round the rasp bed.

              Just don't lime the ground before spuds go in.

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              • #8
                Beans leave some nitrogen in the ground (that is, if you leave the roots in situ to rot down) .. brassicas appreciate nitrogen, so they follow my beans.
                All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                • #9
                  Best to divide plot into four. manure and double dig one section use this for spuds. follow spuds with roots and alliums. Next plant legumes followed by brassicas. Lime for brassicas if required;;they like a fairly neutral soil.legumes put nitrogen in soil brassicas love this. I always use pelleted chicken manure and growmore between manuring and have been getting good results for some time. I put my success down to double digging but its hard work.

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