Correct veg growing together.

[Rosyred]

I need a little help as I started well now i'm failing for clock rotation.

Bed 1

I have broad beans, little gem to come up in middle of bb, onions, garlic, beetroot, radish, pak choi and spinach. They last four only just sown and may not come up as I didn't water in.

Bed 2

Was going to be roots or maybe brassics.

Bed 3

Potatoes one end and the other end  I was going to put in mange tout , runners and sweetcorn leaving the middle for brassics.


I have two lots of sweetcorn to grow if they come up mini and normal but read not to have them together so i'm now confused where to put them and also maybe they shouldn't be with the runners.

Also got cougette, pumpkin to go  but where do I put them?

Tomato's, aubergine they have to go somewhere too.

Any help please..... ;)

[Rosyred]

[supersprout]

rosyred, it all sounds impressively well organised  :P!

My rotation is all over the place flexible this year as I'm just getting to grips with a second plot acquired in December, so you're not alone ;)

Some tips from this site which I have found helpful ::)

Treat sweetcorn and squash as 'wild cards' - they go with anything that likes rich soil.
Squash and pumpkin can trail through the sweetcorn or climbing beans to save space and keep everyone's roots cool 8)

Tomatoes, aubergines and spuds are the same family so plant as far apart as you can just in case one of them gets blight.

Plant e.g. winter/spring brassica, winter lettuce and overwintering spinach when the summer crops come up, as late as September. Late cabbage will enjoy following spuds and/or beans, spinach will grow just about anywhere (I think it's miles better as an autumn/winter crop too).

If you do a search on 'crop rotation' on this site there are bags more ideas, plus confessions of non-rotators :o :o ;D

[saddad]

The Minicorn and Main corn shouldn't be a problem, you pick the mini corn as soon as the tassles appear so you shouldn't get cross pollination to spoil the supersweet!
8)