Re: rotation in the garden

"Chookie" <ehrebeniuk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> 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.

it's not that i've omitted them, but rather that they don't feature in my 
problem :-) i'm happy to put them whereever because i'm not concerned
about 
pest/disease build-up with them. (i'm not addressing _all_ the rotation 
issues here, just the question of pest/disease problems from brassica
being 
everywhere, mainly.)

> 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.

sort of sounds like my "method" so far. :-)

probably setting myself up for a bumper cabbage white moth & butterfly
crop 
next year due to the carry-over. (???) i read recently that part of the 
reason loquats went out of fa****on in gardens is because they can give
fruit 
fly a way to be present & breeding already (the earliest spring fruit)
when 
the other fruits are starting to be ready & you can thus never break the 
cycle. not sure about this - we had no fruit fly last year until well into

the season, despite the loquat tree, but i can see how that might happen
if 
you don't have lots of enthusiastic possums to eat all the loquat in
record 
time before you get to them yourself ;-)
kylie