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Hi i`m quite new to serious veg growing. I have read a few books but am confused about the cabbage situation, is it OK to follow on with spring cabbage in the same bed that I grew summer cabbage, after all its only one year.

I always get confuddled about this too ... I end up just chucking them in where there's a space.

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"is it OK to follow on with spring cabbage in the same bed that I grew summer cabbage, after all its only one year"

In the Legumes zone I would plant Cabbages in late summer, after broad beans, and harvest them early summer, following year - those I would follow with lettuces or something like that.

The Legumes zone becomes the Brassica zone the following year, which includes Cabbages planted in Spring and harvested later summer / autumn.

Some people (And I hasten to add, I'm not one of them!) treat crop rotation as an ANNUAL event i.e Jan 08 to Jan 09.
In this system, Brassicas planted in a single year can follow brassicas planted that same year and so forth with legumes roots etc.
I personally like to rotate veg WITHIN the annual cycle ie Spring cabbage to follow a leguminous crop.........but each to there own I spose!

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I'm with Twosheds, I try to rotate crops but most of the time it ends up 'that is the only space I have for these plants'. Don't like to see bare earth.

Ian