Will salad thrive?

[sweetcorn]

I have just excavated a new veggie bed which will be a raised bed and is in a certain amount of shade from some trees. Will cut and come again salad be happy in this sort of situation? Also will it matter if I always plant salad stuff in here throughout the spring/summer each year, or will I have to do some rotation?

[sewer rat]

I have just excavated a new veggie bed which will be a raised bed and is in a certain amount of shade from some trees. Will cut and come again salad be happy in this sort of situation? Also will it matter if I always plant salad stuff in here throughout the spring/summer each year, or will I have to do some rotation?

It sounds ideal for salad leaves as if the shade will help the temperature from getting too high and thus preventing bolting. As regards continual use of the bed for salad leaves, it shouldn't cause any problems, just remember to replace the goodness by adding some manure over the winter or by raking in a high nitrogen feed a week or so before planting out.

[sweetcorn]

Thanks for the advice! All I have to do now is get all the bramble roots out!

[bluemoon]

I grow my salad crops in small raised beds, my plot has a privet hedge under which nothing will grow so it was a way of using the space. I 'rotate' to a certain extent by also using them for spring onions, chantenay carrots, baby beetroot etc, but this is more that I grow for example the roots at the back one year and at the front the next. I admit mine are in full sun though. I have found that the beds need more in the way of manure, but I think that's because, being so small (1m x 1.2m and 25cm deep) the nutrients are used pretty quickly.