[Nobby T]

help with Crop rotation please......follows on from previous post regarding design! What and where in the numbered beds.....Thankyou, Cheers for help so far Munty, much appreciated

[gobs]

Make sure your pots fit where you are moving them to next year. So, your five sections should be more or less the same size. And that's the only tricky bit with rotation and that's where your green manure and cut flowers can be handy to fill up the bean and pea bed for example.

Good idea to have somewhere, that Mushy likes to call beer space.

[mushroom]

Good idea to have somewhere, that Mushy likes to call beer space.

Yes, very important that. Was the first bit I marked out  :shock:    

[WG.]

Make sure your pots fit where you are moving them to next year. So, your five sections should be more or less the same size.

I am seeing 12 beds in your diagram rather than 10, with potatoes in 4 of them during any one year.

[Nobby T]

Yeh......late night diagram!    The beds will all be equal with comfrey and green manure occupying two beds. The green manure bed will probable be a nursey bed when not producing in the summer!

[WG.]

Comfrey is permanent - perhaps you can grow it around the shed and compost heap to give you more space in beds?

Green manure is generally grown as a catch crop in other beds once they've been harvested.  Brown manure is a lot easier unless you are gardening a la vegan.

 

[David.]

Good idea to have somewhere, that Mushy likes to call beer space.

Isn't that a picnic table marked "C" for Cider up in the top RH corner?

[Nobby T]

Yep......Notice the fruit cages? All full of apples!!

[Nobby T]

redesigned? for the better hopefully!

[WG.]

Apples don't need a fruit cage at all.

I'd be tempted to plant apples along the northern edge so that they don't shade your plot.

[Nobby T]

was replying to Davids post re. Cider!! Not going to grow apples, have been poaching them off friends for years!! Don't want to waste my space!!

[gobs]

Your jolly barterer there, WG.

[mushroom]

Where is the beer area?

[WG.]

Where is the beer area?

I have circled it for you  

[gobs]