Brassica rotation

[tim]

For the first time ever, I have to follow Brassica with Brassica. Any safeguard?

Tempting fate to say it, but we have never had Clubroot. Fingers tightly crossed!

[tim]

[saddad]

Good luck, you should get away with it, but don't let it become a habit...  ;D

[Chantenay]

Tim - if it's not too late, put more than usual lime in soil. Clubroot hates lime.
Also, pot seedlings into slightly larger than usual pots, so they arrive on your plot with a good thick layer of guaranteed good soil. This gives the roots a higher chance of being healthy and fighting off the baddies.
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[Tee Gee]

I tend to go with what the others have indicated.

On occasions I have had to resort to the same thing simply because I grow so many of them.

If you have used the same regime with your 'growing on' I don't think you will have a problem. Club root I have found is generally an 'imported' disease.

What you are more likely to find that last years brassicas will have pulled certain nutrients from the soil that perhaps another plant family would not have, so keep a MORE watchful eye on these plants in question would be my advice.

[tim]

So sorry - forgot to come back to this.

Thanks all!

PS Lime? - thought of that, but we are on limestone, so one hopes that that will help.

[Robert_Brenchley]

If I remember right you're in the Cotswolds; I remember most soils there seemed to be full of little bits of limestone, so you shoudn't have any worries.