Re: rotation in the garden

"0tterbot" <spl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "FarmI" <ask@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "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.
>
> maybe not AS vital?

Prolly, but after about 8-10 years, I'm still waiting for a good dose of 
potato blight on the spud bed.

i'm sure a good rotation would be better, but unsure how
> to introduce it now (especially with the brassica preponderance).
>
> it does sound logical that if i keep adding as much poo & mulch (& now 
> compost as it is really getting going in bulk now!!) that the effects of

> being a bit slack & disorganised will be somewhat ameliorated :-)

That's my theory.  So far no probs but then I do get better organised each

year too.  My garden notebooks are starting to work (in a fa****on).
>
>> 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.
>
> i have that live-&-let-live attitude to the potatoes as well. which, 
> because i'm _trying_ to rotate them, seems to mean random potato plants 
> everywhere.

:-))  Yep.  I had a thriving one come up in the middle of the tomatoes.  I

haven't had spuds there for ever so I think it must have been some of my 
incomplete "compost".  It was a great spud plant and superb spuds too.

> errr!!!!
> thanks for the encouragement.

Whatever works is my motto :-))