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Rotation/clubroot advice needed

21 years ago

Hi there

I am the new co-ordinator of an Organic community garden which does not seem to have had a proper rotation system in place for many years and so I am trying to plan one. This is very difficult when I don't even have records of what has grown where over the years! My main concern is clubroot. The brassicas growing there now (late spring here) appear healthy but I have not examined their roots for signs of disease. I have heard clubroot is almost impossible to control organically and that we would be best to avoid growing brassicas altogether for a year. :(

I am inclined instead to dig a new bed specially for brassicas this season and would like to dress this with some of our beautiful compost. My question is will adding compost

increase the risk of clubroot? Apparently it is able to survive composting along with diseases like verticulum. So doesn't it kind of defeat the point of rotating a crop if we spread compost made from that kind of crop on the new plot?

Am I being hyper paranoid??? Do I need to worry unless there are signs of disease? And are there other crops which might be particularly vulnerable because of this lack of rotation?

Any advice about this or rotations in general greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Eleanor

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