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Growing => Growing in Greenhouses & Polytunnels => Topic started by: samnorfolk on June 02, 2013, 04:53

Title: Crop rotation
Post by: samnorfolk on June 02, 2013, 04:53

In my small polytunnel ive got deep raised beds- if I grow tomatoes/chillis/peppers down one side in one bed and have a few cabbages/spring onions/lettuce/cucumbers and carrots growing in the other one next year would I need to alternate beds??

Title: Re: Crop rotation
Post by: mumofstig on June 02, 2013, 08:22

You don't have to, you could move specific crops around, if that suits you better........lettuce where the cabbage was, onions where the tomatoes were - that kind of thing.

Many people grow their tomatoes in the same beds every year - just perhaps changing a bucketful of compost
from where the tomato roots were, every year, might be a good idea.