plotting and planning!

• By Alison
• 10 December, 2007
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Having taken over the new allotment, I have be busy plotting up my little rotation. Piles of pages of notes, and printouts of advise from different sites was
starting get slighly overwhelming! It’s like putting a jigsaw together that’s made of magnets. Some crops want to be near certain others, and yet
others hate the very sight of them. Or so it would seem from my research.

so I made it easier for myself, and made an illustrator file up so I could just slide the boxes about until they fit nicely. This is what i have so far…

Some vegetables I can’t be bothered with growing, since I don’t like eating them! I wasn’t going to do potatoes either, since they are so cheaply
bought, but for the goodness that they bring the earth, I decided that they were probably beneficial.

Rhubarb is only my list because it’s already there. I need to cut it down and see how it goes. I HATE rhubarb! Visions of stringy, soggy stewed rhubarb
from my childhood, with a vingary aftertaste, wallowing in a melting bowl of icecream don’t help.

I am wondering if I should include raspberries and strawberries rather than something like jerusalem artichokes. I think that the raspberries would certainly
take up a fair bit more space, and the beggars scratch the heck out of you for a not a big return.

You might notice also that there are no peas there. What a waste of time and effort they are! you pick and shell a bucket of peas to get enough for two small
girls. Both of whom eye them up suspiciously and declare that peas are yucky. Even if they are home grown.