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Middlesexbloke

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Tomato question
« on: May 15, 2015, 19:37 »
Hi. I'm planning to grow some tomato plants outdoors on the plot this year as well as in the greenhouse. The thing I'm confused about is the area of ground I'm going to use had potatoes in last year and some stragglers I missed have sprouted. Am I safe to use that ground for toms once I've dug it over and pulled all the sprouted potatoes out or should I use another space? Thanks.

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Re: Tomato question
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2015, 19:51 »
Tomatoes and potatos along with a few others (peppers, chillies and so-on) are part of the Solanaceae family.

So you should really plant elsewhere, for a couple of years.

I think they say a 4 year rotation... but I'm still very new at this
« Last Edit: May 15, 2015, 19:52 by Twitch »

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Re: Tomato question
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2015, 21:06 »
As tomatoes are rather prone to a variety of troubles, I would definitely plant elsewhere.
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Re: Tomato question
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2015, 10:28 »
I rotate my pots in my four raised beds and still have some sprouting from the one I used four years ago, so it is difficult to remove them all. I just hoick out any I see that don't belong in the pattern where my latest ones are planted.
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Re: Tomato question
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2015, 10:58 »
It's generally good to rotate crops so that you do not grow plants of the same type in the same bed in the following year.  So ideally, I would put the tomatoes somewhere else.   However it often gets difficult to follow this advice to the letter, especially if you have a small plot and need to juggle things to fit them in. 

Unless you had blight problems with your spuds last year I don't think your tomatoes would come to much harm due to an unwanted volunteer potato in the same bed.   

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Re: Tomato question
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2015, 22:12 »
Thanks everyone for your advice, I'll use that space for something else this year.


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