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Hi, Hope someone can help with this question. I am new to veggie growing and a bit confused by crop rotation. I understand the basic principles of not growing the same crop in the same spot every year but what if I want to grow them in the same season - say first early potatoes and then after they have finished follow them on with autumn seed potatoes. Can I do this?Or say when one type of early bean has finished could i then plant later beans such as french in the same spot (after applying more fertilizer etc). Cant find the answer to this question anywhere in any gardening book i have.
Thanks

A warm welcome to the forum vegiemaniac.

As long as the previous crop has not had any disease, it will be fine.

If you can add some well rotted manure or homemade compost, as well as some fertilizer, so much the better.

Some books head these second crops, under catch crops.

Have a look at this recent thread

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8542

Thanks a lot for the replies, cleared up this question for me

I think many of us are forced to do what you want to do through sheer lack of growing space. I usually find that if vegetables are disease free, you can resow and replant successfully. A little well rotted manure or chicken manure pellets forked in will help maintain the fertility of the soil.

Veggiemaniac, if you are clever at searching a forum [which I am not] you will find that this topic has been aired on several threads in the past - usually, I believe, in "Bets Practices". It may be worth a trawl.

I don't plant late spuds where I have had earlies, but some organic gardeners think tomatoes could go in immediately you have dug up the earlies, because the earlies mature too soon for blight to become established. I don't do that - I follow spuds with leeks and garlic.