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Title: Brassica rotation
Post by: tim on May 04, 2008, 03:42:59
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!
Title: Re: Brassica rotation
Post by: saddad on May 04, 2008, 08:52:39
Good luck, you should get away with it, but don't let it become a habit...  ;D
Title: Re: Brassica rotation
Post by: Chantenay on May 04, 2008, 10:33:31
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.
A.
Title: Re: Brassica rotation
Post by: Tee Gee on May 04, 2008, 10:57:31
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.
Title: Re: Brassica rotation
Post by: tim on May 05, 2008, 18:57:32
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.
Title: Re: Brassica rotation
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on May 05, 2008, 19:12:33
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.