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  • #1

    rotation confusion!

    Hi

    I want to plant where my overwintering onions now have been lifted but not sure whether to grow something like spring onions there or plant some late peas or something as I am growing peas there (I think) next year.

    Also where my spring cabbage has been pulled up do I continue with brassicas say swedes/turnips or do I move on to next years which is poss onions or roots and so plant spring onions there now.

    Also!! my early peas have finished do I plant my spring cabbage for next year there or plant spring cabbage where brassicas have been this year?
    I have got a knotted brain trying to work out what to do!!!

    much appreciate anyone's experience or opinions on this thanks!
    Sarah
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    I think most of would say simply don't follow on with a crop from the same group. I am clearing my autumn planted onions and have put some salad stuff in one area and carrots in another. My peas and beans are going to be followed by my spring greens but I'm steadily moving from fixed beds and rotation and doing what snadger calls "pocket planting". My cook wants more onions and carrots than greens so there are always odd spaces to fill up with other things.
    History teaches us that history teaches us nothing. - Hegel

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    • #3
      My onions were lifted today and I put 150 ish dwarf beans in.

      Just follow with a different family and you won't go far wrong.

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      • #4
        Some people say never follow a crop with one of the same family. Others say it's ok to do it over one year but rotate the following year. I have brassicas dotted about all over the garden so I don't worry about them in the rotation. To be honest I think it's only important on a commercial scale and as most of us grow relatively small amounts there is not the build up of soil pathogens unless we always grow exactly the same thing on the same bit of land for several years.

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          I'm no expert, but I do try to follow some sort of rotation system, so when I get round to planting out my spring greens, it will be in next year brassica bed (currently aliums).
          pjh75

          We sow the seed, nature grows the seed, we eat the seed. (Neil, The Young Ones)

          http://producebypaula.blogspot.com/

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          • #6
            Originally posted by solway cropper View Post
            Some people say never follow a crop with one of the same family. Others say it's ok to do it over one year but rotate the following year. I have brassicas dotted about all over the garden so I don't worry about them in the rotation. To be honest I think it's only important on a commercial scale and as most of us grow relatively small amounts there is not the build up of soil pathogens unless we always grow exactly the same thing on the same bit of land for several years.
            Pretty much!
            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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