Topic: growing strawberrys where your potatoes were

[brown thumb]

i was planning on making a straw berry  patch where potatoes were grown last year  i googled that by growing mustard seed and digging it in will help to wards avoiding verticilliam wilt  can any one  advice me on this and other views would be appreciated

[antipodes]

There was just a thread about this in the last week or so - the general gist was probably to be avoided... try a search for that thread.

[jjt]

I agree with the general gist but 2 years ago I made a strawberry bed where the potatoes had been a few months earlier.  I dug in plenty of compost and leafmould and the plants have done really well.  So it can be OK.  Although the potatoes had only been there that once.  I know that for certain because it was a field before.  Just depends on your attitude to risk I suppose, and whether there's a viable alternative.  Don't know about mustard, but why not try it. It'll do good anyway.

[brown thumb]

the new plot was almost planted with pots being used as a cleaning crop by the previous owner which i took on this year for a fruit and flower area now covered in black plastic  since beginning april  just dried grass and dust under neath  now lol

[brown thumb]

belt and braces i think, will plant  mustard and then dig it in then a thick layer of compost and any thing else i get my hands on a  sort of raised bed because strawberry's is quite shallow rooted it might just work will let every one know how they get on i will also keep old patch going so i wont be completely with Berry's if it fail