potato follow on crop

[Snadger]

Going to try kale this year for the first time. I really like the stuff, but there's clubroot in my garden and at the lottie Time for lots of lime and rhubarb leaves, methinks.

I battle against clubroot too, but find the winter brasica's arent as badly affected as summer ones. Kale has a very tight cell structure (thats why they can make walking sticks from it!) which seems to stop the fungus invading. The clubroot fungus seems to be temperature reliant to become active and doesn't like the cold!

I've got a feeeling the new clubroot resistant cabbages are actually a kale/cabbage cross as well!

[Birdie Wife]

I'd say squashes are a good bet for following early tatties, they don't mess up your rotation because they are neither legume, brassica or root, and so don't succumb to the type of diseases that these might. May is perfect timing for them too.

[theothermarg]

hang on ,put tatty's in early march and harvest mid may . where i am (near bristol) we can have frost up to late may! i reckon to put in mid to late march
good friday is the traditional time i think, earth up or cover young growth and start digging up in july. space then can be used for salads picked young
if anybody disagree,s please tell
marg (the other one)

[*Feather*]

Potatoes and squash

I can't remember which order you are supposed to rotate but i'm sure carrots or squash shoul be fine, in fact i'd chuck anything that would grow in there! (apart from more spuds or tomatoes/peppers/aubergines as they are from the same family).

This might be a silly question but... I read somewhere that potatoes and squash were not good companion for planting. Can you plant them one after the other in the same spot? Won't this affect them? Thanks!