PSB and crop rotation?

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allot2learn

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PSB and crop rotation?
« on: May 09, 2012, 00:02 »
How do you fit PSB into your crop rotation? If yours is cropping nicely now, I was planning on following my brassicas with onions which would be in the ground by now. Is there a simple answer which I am missing?

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Salmo

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Re: PSB and crop rotation?
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2012, 00:40 »
Year 1
I plant PSB/spring cabbage/spring cauli plants out in July after broad beans or early peas are finished. I do not grow any other brassicas.
Year 2
I follow PSB with courgettes/ squashs or sweet corn in late May/early June.
Year 3
I follow the cougettes etc with onions. If these are winter onions/shallots or garlic there is no gap. Leeks sometimes follow shallots/winter onions but usually this sown with green manure such as phacelia/mustard or a ryegrass/clover mix.
Year 4
French/runner beans/salads
Year 5
Potatoes
Year 6
Roots -  carrots/parsnip/beet/celery/salads

Not as complicated as it looks.

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Re: PSB and crop rotation?
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2012, 16:01 »
Is PSB the only brassica you grow?
If not onions in ground other brassicas were in and leeks in after PSB.

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Re: PSB and crop rotation?
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2012, 17:30 »
Is PSB the only brassica you grow?
If not onions in ground other brassicas were in and leeks in after PSB.

I've got summer cauli's, sprouts, and calabrese coming on in the cold frame but all of these should be out of the ground in time to prep the bed for onions in the spring just as the psb is staring to produce a crop. Tha't why I didn't want to include them with the rest of the brass. I don't grow leeks.


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