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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.

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    I always get confuddled about this too ... I end up just chucking them in where there's a space.
    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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    • #3
      "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.
      K's Garden blog the story of the creation of our garden

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      • #4
        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!
        My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
        to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

        Diversify & prosper


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        • #5
          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

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