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— Today’s topic is crop rotation. ... Bed 4: Onions, Fennel, Tomatoes, parsnips. This year we will shift everything to these locations: Bed 1: Peppers (Perennial herbs remain.) ...
“When creating a crop rotation system for your garden, remember that multiple plant families can be planted and rotated together in the same bed. No system will fit all your needs perfectly.
The first step in setting up crop rotation is dividing up your vegetable bed. Usually, gardeners divide them into three or ...
Crop rotation is a way of minimising pests and diseases in your garden by not planting vegetables from the same family in the same soil year ... Tino has created a 4-bed rotation system. ...
Crop rotation is an ancient practice, dating back to pre-Roman times, to preserve soil fertility. Here’s how you can do it in your Marin garden.
While the majority of Midwestern farmers rotate corn and soybeans, commodity prices and corn yield advantages compel some to ...
We have a successful crop or flower bed and we can’t wait to rejuvenate it next year. This is not good for your garden and just like the farmers of the 50s and 60s you will soon go back to ...
In “Kitchen Garden Living” (Cool Springs Press, 2025), author Bailey Van Tassel invokes an easily memorized rhyme concerning crop rotation in the vegetable garden: “beans, roots, greens ...
With a new year comes opportunities for a new start — especially in the garden. As we look through seed catalogs and past garden records to develop plans for planting, crop rotation in an annual ...