Tweet
Well, I've been trying to work out what to plant next year and I've come up with a slight problem that I need folks' advice on. 
This year I planted alliums amongst everything else in all three beds, as I had a lack of plan, a lack of info and didn't realise that this could cause a problem with diseases for future allium planting. Having found all this out since then, I have been trying to work out what I should plant where next year.
I don't think I can avoid planting the same type of crops in the same place two years in a row but I wondered if the following plan would at least minimise any possible disease/growing problems or if I need to amend it?
I also have a similar problem with potatoes. These are grown in pots at the moment and I have been planting them for the last couple of years in the same soil. Would planting other crops in the containers over the winter period count as a rotation of sorts and thus help avoid disease for next year's potato planting or is this more based on time span between potato crops? I would also like to get a winter crop of tatties in a couple of the pots this year, but I fear that this also may be pushing it in the same soil?
Bed 1 (1m x 1m)
This year: Third beans, third chard, third celery and leeks and garlic around the edge of the bed.
Next year: Two thirds garlic, one third red onions (october planting).
Bed 2 (1m x 1m)
This year: Third parsley, third broccoli, third onions and garlic mixed.
Next year: Third parsley, third celery (to avoid the same ground as the onions and garlic if this is enough given that it is still in the same bed?), and the rest salad veggies.
Bed 3 (1m x 1m)
This year: Third parsley, third onions and garlic mixed, third sweetcorn.
Next year: Beans (climbing), probably a mix of salad leaves and possibly some broccoli.
Potato containers
This year: Potatoes.
Winter crop: Mizuna, turnips and purple sprouting (and possibly two out of nine pots of winter tatties).
Next year: Potatoes.
This year I planted alliums amongst everything else in all three beds, as I had a lack of plan, a lack of info and didn't realise that this could cause a problem with diseases for future allium planting. Having found all this out since then, I have been trying to work out what I should plant where next year.
I don't think I can avoid planting the same type of crops in the same place two years in a row but I wondered if the following plan would at least minimise any possible disease/growing problems or if I need to amend it?
I also have a similar problem with potatoes. These are grown in pots at the moment and I have been planting them for the last couple of years in the same soil. Would planting other crops in the containers over the winter period count as a rotation of sorts and thus help avoid disease for next year's potato planting or is this more based on time span between potato crops? I would also like to get a winter crop of tatties in a couple of the pots this year, but I fear that this also may be pushing it in the same soil?
Bed 1 (1m x 1m)
This year: Third beans, third chard, third celery and leeks and garlic around the edge of the bed.
Next year: Two thirds garlic, one third red onions (october planting).
Bed 2 (1m x 1m)
This year: Third parsley, third broccoli, third onions and garlic mixed.
Next year: Third parsley, third celery (to avoid the same ground as the onions and garlic if this is enough given that it is still in the same bed?), and the rest salad veggies.
Bed 3 (1m x 1m)
This year: Third parsley, third onions and garlic mixed, third sweetcorn.
Next year: Beans (climbing), probably a mix of salad leaves and possibly some broccoli.
Potato containers
This year: Potatoes.
Winter crop: Mizuna, turnips and purple sprouting (and possibly two out of nine pots of winter tatties).
Next year: Potatoes.
Comment