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Re: Crop Rotation

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Actually the history of this idea is quite interesting; Rudolf Steiner
mentions it in his Lectures on Agriculture, 1924, and the idea predates him,
even.

John Jeavons also talks about it in How to Grow More Vegetables...and his
gardeners have been growing tomatoes all over the world.

Crop rotation is an important concept especially on a field scale, and fits
in quite naturally to sq ft gardening because of the planning and control
exercised...

But sq ft gardening and gardening generally allow a much higher use of
materials and attention per plant by the gardener, than field scale
production; and we can pack in a lot more biodiversity in a smaller space;
perhaps those who enjoy success with tomatoes following tomatoes, are also
interplanting basil and other herbs and plants, which would tend to reduce
any pest/disease problems also....

Anyway I don't have all the answers here, but the tomato is a mysterious
plant which thrives under many regimes...the suckering thread should
indicate that....

Frank---notes that his neighbor's cherry tomatoes under partial shade are
way ahead of his....and she always grows them in the same place, going on 15
years now...:-)

-----Original Message-----
From: margaret lauterbach <mlaute@micron.net>
To: Neil Hubbard <nehubbard@ucdavis.edu>; lusbyt <lusbyt@olynet.com>; Square
Foot <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Friday, June 25, 1999 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: Crop Rotation


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>At 10:57 AM 6/25/99 -0700, Neil Hubbard wrote:
>>Margaret,
>>
>> I think your results with your tomatoes may be an exception from
>>the rule.
>>
>Of course that's a possibility, but I'm finding more and more people
>admitting to growing tomatoes in the same space for years on end.  One of
>the benefits of my tomato "patch" is that it's bordered by a honeysuckle
>hedge and a basketweave fence. There's a little shade from these, and since
>beet leafhoppers avoid shade, I haven't had any problem with curly top
>virus in that patch (knock on wood).  But hey, since micorrhyzae (sp?) are
>invisible anyway, why couldn't that be the answer? (VBG) Margaret L
>
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