john seymour's rotation

Has anybody tried planting their winter brassicas in the bed that the early potatoes have been lifted from? In his self sufficiency book he advises liming and firming in between, but still wondered if it works in practice.

Cos if it does it makes rotation for the rest of my crops easy.

i too have my brassicas following beans/peas for same reasons as aidy's put.

brassicas like a nice firm soil so by chopping off the bean/pea top growth at soil level once you've finished harvesting them (and leaving the roots in place with the valuable nitrogen nodules attached) there's no soil disturbance involved, so it tends to be firmer.

no harm in trying seymour's method though, would recommend you compact the soil as much as poss after digging spuds out.

Ditto with the PSB and savoys following Duke of York.  All of which are doing great but ...

my mistake  :oops:  was starting the brassiccas ways tooo early so they were desperate to be planted out before the pots were ready to crop.  Lesson for next year - take it a bit easier putting those brassicca seeds in the ground!