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Crop rotation for carrot

 
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Hello! what would be a good crop to plant in the area after harvesting carrots? An aboveground crop?
 
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It will be summer weather here after my carrots are done, so I will probably do tomatoes right after I harvest the carrots (in early  summer) and then my autumn peas will be sown in that bed after that. Winter cover crop after the peas, like vetch, hulless oats, winter wheat & clover will then carry me into next Spring!
 
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Rachel Lindsay wrote:It will be summer weather here after my carrots are done, so I will probably do tomatoes right after I harvest the carrots (in early  summer) and then my autumn peas will be sown in that bed after that. Winter cover crop after the peas, like vetch, hulless oats, winter wheat & clover will then carry me into next Spring!


what do you recommend for a winter  cover crop that doesn't need to be tilled in?
 
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Almond Thompson wrote:  what do you recommend for a winter  cover crop that doesn't need to be tilled in?



Last winter was my first season gardening with those cover crops, but I am mostly chopping-and-dropping them now, not tilling them in, actually. And I will just let my spring peas decompose in their bed and plant the seeds of the summer crop in that bed under them. Mulch and fertility services, in situ! I love "lazy" gardening so much.
 
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