Rotation 02
         
   

 

Organic environment, Summer 2002

Potatoes tested on all beds and the 12 small beds consolidated into 6 large beds for crop rotation. Then a quick green manure crop of white mustard seed to improve the soil condition.

Brassicas, roots, spring onions Shrubs, Swiss chard, seedbed, garlic, onions
Sow Pak Choi, 3 October 2002 White mustard seed, cabbages, Chinese greens, strawberries, September 2002
Onion sets White mustard seed, turned.

After the mustard seed is turned in the beds are sown for overwintering. Cabbages planted out. 29 September 2002, sow 136 onion sets having turned in the mustard seed manure. 5 October, recheck potatoes and return to store. 6 October 2002, sow 75 Taylor's Silvermoon white overwintering onion sets and remaining natural onion sets. Sow three square metres of Thompson & Morgan's Green Manure; forage rye, forage peas, tares and Italian ryegrass. Also sow three rows of turnips and seven rows of Pak Choi in the next season potato bed.

White mustard seed green manure, Autumn 2002. 

Great Nicola and Charlotte salad potatoes, improved Lapp variety. Seed grown and plants set out. Original Lapptop potato harvested!