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Crop Rotation

  Hello, everybody,

 > 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,
 > Doreen  Zone 9B, along the Upper Texas Gulf Coast

I wish ...... I could do this method of soil baking. <grin> I have a short
season 90-110 days if we are really lucky. I am near the Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada where we are a zone 3a.

I have have not had any Tomatoe diseases and have been
planting my tomatoes in the same places for years.  I got the idea from a book
somewhere but I didn't reference where I got the information.

I only have one spot to plant cherrie tomatoes and they have
florished for the last 9 years.  The only crop rotation that I do is that I
plant a crop of spincah that comes up mid-April. The spinach is ready to be
taken out around June 6 th when I can safely plant my tomatoes.

Irene Ford, zone 3a ( -28C / -16F at the moment)
Stony Plain, Alberta
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