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Re: Crop Rotation

I, too, garden in the hot, humid, disease-riddled South.  And, I
don 't have the space for much rotation, either.  What I do to
destroy soil-borne pathogens is solarize during the hottest part of
summer--late July and August.  Baking the soil at 150 degrees for
6 weeks works, because I plant my heirloom tomatoes, which don't have
hybridized disease-fighting genes, in the same spot every year.
And, I get huge crops. Last year, the record on one plant, a
Russian black heirloom Southern Nights, was 155 fruit, ranging in
size from 6-13 oz.  Average tomato was 8.5 ounces.
Doreen
Zone 9B, along the Upper Texas Gulf Coast
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