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    crop rotation planning

    Hi all,

    I'm trying to plan ahead while I have a blank canvas. I'm reading up on crop rotation but don't really understand how to rotate what I want to plant, as most fall in to the same category.
    I'm wanting to grow tomatoes, potatoes (1st earlies, 2nd earlies and maincrop), parsnips, carrots, peas, leeks, beetroot, Raspberries and Strawberries. If I cut anything it would be the leeks and beetroot.
    How would you plant it in order to rotate?

    Thanks
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    Raspberries need to have a permanent bed, they don't get rotated.

    Strawberries don't get moved for about 4 years so you don't have to worry about moving them for now.

    You need potato space, root space (carrots, parsnips and beets) and pea/bean space.

    (Leeks follow, in same bed, after new potatoes are harvested.)

    Then the next year everything moves along.
    That's the theory, but on my small allotment plot, I just make sure I don't follow one crop with the same thing the next year.

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      Like Thelma I don't follow on with the same thing the next year. I do try and organise it so if I have a root crop next to a surface crop e.g carrots next to spinach etc so that when I pick the surface crop the root one next to it is not disturbed. This all helps me organise my very limited garden growing space.
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