On 17 Feb 2005 11:05:44 -0800, wrote:

According to the book "Reader's Digest Organic Gardening for the 21st
Century," tomatoes should not be part of your crop rotation scheme and
should be left in the same bed year after year: "Tomatoes are
narcissistic and do not like to rotate." That hit me as strange, as I
thought tomatoes were fairly prone to soil-borne diseases and would
definitely benefit from regular crop rotation. Any comments from the
tomato gurus in the group?

-Fleemo

I rotate just about everything in the vegetable garden. Old tomato
vines should be placed in the trash, never composted. In Ohio,
tomatoes grow like weeds--anywhere and everywhere with little care. I
recall tomatoes growing out of sidewalk cracks in the spring!