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| I just pulled up my sweet onions and I'm wondering if it's smart or dumb to plant my fall/winter leeks in that same bed? The bed is weed free and already has soaker hoses in place so it will be easy to pop in the leeks, but I'm concerned about planting 2 similar plants in the same space in the same season. Should I be worried about anything? Thanks! |
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| Normally I wouldn't do this, but if onions were not infested and crop of leeks is not super-important for you - why not to try? Next year you will plant something else there... |
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| Thanks! I'll probably try it just because I'm too tired/lazy to get a whole other bed set up. |
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| Robinsons, in England, who grow award winning onions as well as producing seeds for exhibition, heritage and general edible use, have been maintaining a 200 year old onion bed. I, myself, because of endemic white rot on my plot, have a raised bed area where I grow garlic, every year. While crop rotation is a precursor to plant health, it is only one strategy out of many and for some crops (most notably beans) a permanent trench system has been in use for centuries. I also committed the cardinal sin of growing potatoes in the same place for 2 successive seasons (and am still waiting to be cast down into purgatory by the god of gardening). Go ahead, Bart - life is too short to get hung up on everything....if it works, great and if not, well then, a lesson learned....but who is harmed by your little experiment? |
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