The best laid plans..or not!

[w33blegurl]

I am roughly trying to follow a crop rotation in raised beds in the garden. Having just had my overwintering onion sets arrived, I have rather stupidly realised that the bed they were going to go into is full of brassicas that wont be shifted until next spring! Doh! Am I safe enough to put them in the same place as last year, which now has a bit of space, or would I be safer squeezing them into a different bed and planning a bit more sensibly next year? I'm just not sure if onions are one of the ones that need to be very strictly rotated!

Thanks!!

[zazen999]

I am roughly trying to follow a crop rotation in raised beds in the garden. Having just had my overwintering onion sets arrived, I have rather stupidly realised that the bed they were going to go into is full of brassicas that wont be shifted until next spring! Doh! Am I safe enough to put them in the same place as last year, which now has a bit of space, or would I be safer squeezing them into a different bed and planning a bit more sensibly next year? I'm just not sure if onions are one of the ones that need to be very strictly rotated!

Thanks!!

If you didn't have any problems with last year's onions then yes. If you did -then no!

What are the chances of them being in the exact same spot anyway?

[PAULW]

Its all right you wont be struck by a bolt of lightening if you plant them somewhere else, I usually plant the onions where the spuds were, put the spuds in and them shove stuff in the spare space if something goes in in the same place as last year its not life or death.

[bobleponge]

Last year a stuck some onions around the gaps in my carrots, this year I will be chucking some onions wherever I can find a space.
As Zazen said, if there were no problems last year, you should find yourself ok.

[w33blegurl]

Thanks for the replies, think I might just put some in where last years were (had no problems with them) and dot the rest where I can grab a bit of space then!

[zazen999]

I have onions all over my plot and sometimes use them to mark out beds as they can sit there quite happily whilst other stuff grows around them.