No rotation, diseases and pests will eat your next tomato plant more
efficiently. Of course if you use large quantities of fungicides and
pesticides you'll manage to defeat that all, but what you will get is
chemical cocktail in red ball. Of course any monoculture isn't recomended
cause of soil exhaustion of specific nutrients in soil. Different species
use different nutrients, or in diferent forms, quantities, depth in soil.
And many more...
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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