Bed 1: Root vegetables
Bed 2: Legumes (peas, beans)
Bed 3: Onions
Bed 4: Tomatoes
Bed 5: Sweetcorn/Pumpkins
Bed 6: Potatoes
Why rotate your crops: because if you don't you end up with things like Root Knot Nematodes - which I have in a bed where I grew spuds, then tomatoes, then spuds, then tomatoes, then tomatoes, before I knew about crop rotation. The bed is now next to useless.
So, whilst visiting Fagan Park at Galston last week I was interested to see their crop rotation system in their Eco Garden.
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| Its a sign |
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| Bed 1: Lettuce, garlic, marigolds |
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| Bed 2: Cabbage, radish, celery |
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| Bed 3: Leeks, shallots, onions |
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| Bed 4: Green manure |
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| Bed 5: Snowpeas, beans |
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| Bed 6: Spinach, beetroot, onions |
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hmmm, I'm struggling with this too, I have so many brassicas there's no way to rotate..... I think it matters more for some plants compared to others. I think the solution with your nematodes is to grow marigolds and dig them into the soil, but I haven't tried that myself. I wonder how they will go with the onions in the bed with the root crops, they have two onion beds (3 and 6), so won't that stuff up the rotation?
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