white crops

[sutton girl]

Hi do's an7yone know what whie crops are  it say on the allotment rule's that we cannot plant white crops in the same place the next year i dont know what the are do's anyone know please

[sutton girl]

[RosieMcPosie]

I 'THINK'  ??? WHITE CROPS MEAN GREEN MANURES...
ANYONE ELSE?

[Barnowl]

Wouldn't  onions/leeks/garlic be more likely - to help prevent any build up of white rot / other allium diseases?

[Pumper]

My time to chuck MY spanner in the works...
I understood White Crops to be cereals; such as oats, barley, wheat, maize, etc.

[RosieMcPosie]

doh!  :-\ it was just a guess...

[caroline7758]

Best ask whoever wrote the rules! ;D

[Barnowl]

doh!  :-\ it was just a guess...

Ditto  :D

[sarah]

i've never heard of white crops.

[OllieC]

It's something they've made up. Or someone has something against white beetroot!

[Eristic]

Under the recently introduced veg Discrimination Act it is now illegal to discriminate or segregate Vegetables on grounds of their colour. You have been warned.

[SnooziSuzi]

Maybe it's all of this home improving that's leaked out onto gardens and it would just upset their inner chi / feng shui / sense of colour balance?

;D

[sutton girl]

p/s that's whaty it says on our allotment agreement.

[asbean]

ask the person who wrote the rules - I've never heard of white crops  ??? ??? ??? ???

[Robert_Brenchley]

I tried google, and found nothing apart from clothes.

[silverbirch]

I found this one

2. White Straw Crops
These are wheat, barley and oats; and are exhaustive cash crops which encourage grass weeds.  Continuous cropping of them encourages eye-spot, take-all and nematodes.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~ltu005/webcase/data/WheatBrae/ICM/02/00.html


but seems strange on an allotment!!

[sutton girl]

Thank i think i understand is it a bit like crop rotation?