Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: missmoneypenny on May 17, 2022, 18:23
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Hello, I am trying to work out where everything is going to go and all the other spots are taken , would it be ok to put sweetcorn where it grew last year. I won’t make a habit of it! The soil was covered in horse manure over winter, which I dug in about 6 weeks ago.
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You should be OK :)
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I have grown my sweetcorn in the same place for a good 20+ years and it does well there every year.
It is all I grow there, but do late autumn light rake loads of home compost bin material over the area for winter worms to churn down into the soil and throw weekly kitchen scraps over the area during winter, with another small light dig over before planting with more home compost bin material added.
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Thanks guys this is reassuring!
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I have grown my sweetcorn in the same place for a good 20+ years and it does well there every year.
Useful to know.
Alas Is it true of beans? French beans, sugar snap and cannellini beans. All growing down a hillside. I suppose I could change the order each year?
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Peas and beans don't really suffer from soil-borne diseases, so don't really need to be rotated.
Many people build a strong bean frame and grow their beans in the same place every year.
Just make sure to keep the soil in good condition, some of us dig trenches, where the beans are going, and fill with kitchen scraps over the winter. Just cover with soil before sowing/planting.