Creating a Brassica Bed

[vegnut]

You have a good clay soil in Crawley, nice and compact, so i would do what SarzWix suggests with the cardboard and fabric. When your ready to plant, just take a plug out. Your brassicas will love you for it.

[zazen999]

Unless you are going to be getting perennial weeds out - don't dig it over, just leave it!

[Two_Sheds]

if Chris Beardshaw advocates it, it must be right!

I would have thought you, of all people, would be open to new ideas and information

[Snadger]

I would have thought you, of all people, would be open to new ideas and information

I am, but only if the RHS or some other reputable organisation had verified it?

This isn't just a small finding, this would cast doubt on crop rotation practices that have been in practice since man stopped becoming a hunter gatherer and started farming the land for food. Apart from that my Dad and Grandad would turn in their graves at such a suggestion.(rolleyes)

(I intend doing my own tests in the summer once my beans have cropped anyway)