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Too much nitrogen also causes blown sprouts. Mine were planted half in and half out of the previous years runner bean trench - all the ones in the trench blew, all the ones not were OK.
Quote from: redclanger on March 07, 2007, 18:59:04Too much nitrogen also causes blown sprouts. Mine were planted half in and half out of the previous years runner bean trench - all the ones in the trench blew, all the ones not were OK.Now I'm really confused - I thought brassicas were meant to follow legumes ???Bob Flowerdew.."# Brassicas like lime but potatoes don't like lime, so it makes a lot of sense to have them well apart in the rotation. Peas and beans also like lime, so it's common to add the lime when you have peas and beans. That leaves the soil rich, so then you plant your brassicas.# After the brassicas the soil is quite firm, which is good for the onions. You don't even have to dig the soil, you can just put the onions where the brassicas were.# After the onions, carrots come rather well. Because carrots are a root vegetable you break the soil up getting them out, which leaves the soil in lovely condition for planting potatoes!# The potatoes take a lot of goodness out of the soil, so I earth them up with grass clippings, which increases the humus content. At that point it's good to add lime so it's time for the peas and beans to come back again! "