Re: rotation in the garden

"0tterbot" <spl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> have realised what my problem is re rotating the garden beds in an 
> organised manner:

I try to do at least a two year rotation, but in my garden, my sloppiness 
doesn't seem to have had any ill effects.  I have read somewhere that if
you 
garden organically, it isn't vital to rotate, but who the hell knows if
that 
is true.

In our case we only have 3 areas whihc I would call 'beds' and then there
is 
all the side stuff and permanent beds and areas still being brought into 
good heart before they become beds.  The tomatoes start in the bed at the 
bottom of the hill and then over subsequent years move to the next bed up 
the hill and then start at the bottom of the hill in the lowest bed again.

Same with corn.  The poor old spuds have got a permanent bed and so far no

problems.  The reason why it's permanent is that we can never harvest them

all and then when they come up, it tends to be a busy time, we don't get
tot 
hem and by the time we do get to them to actually do soemthing with their 
area, we don't have the heart to dig them up.  Will have to do something 
there soon though.