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"Robert \(Plymouth\)" writes:
| "Ed" ex@directory wrote in message
| et...
| I currently have one of my beds on the allotment growing new (early)
| potatoes which I expect to harvest beginning the end of June and throughout
| July. Next season, this bed will be given over to onions and root groups
| as part of my crop rotation plan.
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| So from August onwards, when all the early potatoes are dug out, should I
| just leave this bed fallow until next season (apart from weeding) or is
| there anything useful I should be doing with it in the intervening period?
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| Over wintering onion sets would fit in nicely with your rotation

Or 'oriental' greens and salad crops for autumn/winter, including mizuna,
spinach and (if you are lucky) turnip and beetroot for harvesting small.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.