Re: rotation in the garden

In article <sANTj.7893$ko5.7568@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "0tterbot" <spl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> have realised what my problem is re rotating the garden beds in an
organised 
> manner:
> 
> 1: lots of brassicas. i seem to grow half brassicas & half other stuff!!

> (only slight exaggeration). this makes rotation difficult! in summer,
lots 
> of solanacae (sp!) as well, of course, which have to be somewhere
different 
> each season.

You've omitted the legumes, the other big vegie garden family.  If you
follow 
your brassicas with solanaceae and then with legumes, you have a rotation.

> 2: not everything comes out at the same time - the garden goes all year.

> (how is one to rotate in this cir***stance?!) i try to keep a record &
then 
> consider what was in each section of each bed - the entire bed isn't
taken 
> as a whole because they're quite long, with perhaps up to 10 different 
> things along the length - and only in the same family if it's worked out

> that way. if it hasn't worked out that way, i can't do it.
> 
> in a nutshell, if i rotate as best i can but still grow lots of
brassica, am 
> i setting myself up for a disease disaster? i simply cannot think how to

> plan good rotations under this cir***stance. with the brassica i take
out 
> the entire roots, so each location gets a rest - is that enough?

I have a similar problem in that I'm not organised enough to do proper 
rotations.  OTOH I plant mixtures of crops, which tend to minimise pest 
problems.

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