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    over the 1st winter I built my greenhouse.
    and I had toms chillies cucumber and buternut squash, all a bit to crampt up growing last summer.
    my greenhouse is about 5' x 12' for the reason that it fitted onto my shed.
    it is built out of perspex domes that came from a school roof, + 2"x4" reclaimed roof trussess. things as they come along.
    This winter I have got hold of some more perspex domes, the last of the ones available from that source, and I can extend my greenhoues to 9' by 12' , extending so the shed bit doesnt block the greenhouse bit of southern sun so much.
    Anyway, you get the idea, big greenhouse on alotment plot, .
    and now I get to my point.
    I want to have 3 rotated beds within the greenhouse.
    when I built the original narrow gh i put in 22 inch high 28inch wide beds down the lenght on one side and along the gable
    I like the Idea of having the raised beds around the sides
    I dont want to have to dig out & change the soil,
    I want to rotate the crop.
    this is all I can come up with for a rotation:
    any Ideas on how to make this rotation work better will be greatly apreachiated.
    G1 tomatoes, peppers & aubergine.
    G2 Cucumber, mellon & Butternut squash.
    G3 Sweet potato (maybe if it works) what else can I put in this catorgory?

    so that is my question, what else can go into my 3rd rotation catorgory for a greenhouse rotation?
    apologies for waffling so much.
    jonty

  • #2
    Chillies?

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    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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    • #3
      Basically, anything you can grow outdoors can be grown indoors so in effect the rotations are limitless.

      No matter what you grow though, and how you rotate, you WILL suffer from diminished crops each year if you don't renew the bedsoil. I've even tried adding organic matter and beefing it up but it just delays the inevitable methinks.

      I reckon on about three years max before indoor crops are affected.
      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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      • #4
        As Snadger has said but as an extra crop....

        Dwarf French Beans - the variety called Speedy is good. As a legume it is a different family and will add nitrogen back to the soil.
        The weeks and the years are fine. It's the days I can't cope with!

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