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Successive crops?

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  • raisingirl 
    no need to move
    you can restrict day length with simple frame and black weed
    fabric or you can mount the fabric on cloche. 
    the basic technique is so simple even someone in UK could do it.
    this technique was published in a USA in "organic gardening magazine" 
    several years ago.  
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117


    the basic technique is so simple even someone in UK could do it.

    Classy.... :|
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    Jog along @war garden 572 and take your rude comments with you.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    I could answer that but I wouldn't be so rude
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Go on @raisingirl   How about we all be rude and honest.
    The WUM is a PITA, are they ever ‘classy’ @Fairygirl

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Repeated anti-UK insults on a UK based forum … either @war garden 572 has no manners at all, or is a WUM deliberately attempting to provoke argument. 
    Perhaps he/she would like to clarify which. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    perhaps they would, but I honestly don't care.

    Going back to the OP, it's not really relevant whether you call it rotation, successive, interplanting or catch crops. You can plant more than one crop in the ground or compost in a pot in a season, but it helps if you take a little time to understand what impact different crops have on the planting medium (soil or compost) so that you can either respect it or correct it for the next one. That reduces wastage and losses from planting crops in conditions they won't do well in and minimises your risk of introducing diseases, fungal infections, etc that can wipe out a whole crop.


    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I grow my beans in a long narrow bed,  in the front of them I grow something that will produce after the beans have gone,  usually leeks one year, parsnips the next. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    How an American has the nerve to be rude about Britain, I don't know.
    We might be in a mess, but USA, the richest country in the world, with the highest levels of inequality.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • not rude at all . the uk has been using shade to restrict day
    length in gardens for over 150 years. guess you all forgot,
     that was one of benefits of walled kitchen gardens. you all
    have  forgotten  you own historic garden techniques.  
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