"Bob Hobden" <bobh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Ed" wrote
>>I have just taken over an allotment and am in the process of clearing
all
>>(well most?) of the nasty weeds etc by the end of the summer. I plan to
>>divide the allotment into 6 parts. One part is for permanent crops like
>>fruit and the remaining five would rotate in the following order:
>>
>> Legumes, followed by
>> Brassicas, followed by
>> Fallow, followed by
>> Potatoes, followed by
>> Onions/Roots
>>
>> I have read a number of articles on google and they all seem to offer
>> different rotations. For example some suggest following Brassicas by
>> Legumes; others suggest the reverse.
>>
>> Does the plan, that I outlined above , seem OK? Or is it flawed.?
>>
>> (The fallow bed is to allow me a chance to do deep deep cleaning of
weeds
>> and will also provide a space for me to bed out some plants like
>> Wallflowers that I grow from seed before I transfer then to their final
>> positions in the autumn in the flower garden at home.)
>>
>
> We use a 4 year rotation ...
>
> 1. Good layer of rotted manure dug in, then Potatoes
> 2. Lime rotovated in, then Brassicas
> 3. Legumes
> 4. Onions etc. and roots (chicken manure pellets used)
>
> Works for us.
>
> --
> Regards
> Bob Hobden
>
Mine for the offering
Double dig and compost/manure, Potatoes, overwinter with leeks.
Onions, over wintered with green manure dug in about February.
Brassicas, followed by winter brassicas.
Beans, some broad, some dwarf, lots of runner.
Carrots, beetroot and the other odds and sods.
This was decided because the soil had been abused by the previous
occupants
of the house as a football pitch, but it was a market garden before that,
it
is sandy loam.
It isn't an allotment, just a respectable size back garden, and we are in
Wallasey at the north end of the Wirral Peninsular, less than half a mile
from the sea. We don't get as cold as some places only a few miles away,
which is why we can dig in February generally.
The main thing is to change the pests around, and encourage your friends,
not your enemies! The RHS vegetable book has some good advice.
Good luck
John
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