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The 3 Greatest Benefits of Vegetable Crop Rotation in Your Garden
This aspect of vegetable gardening is fundamental to organic gardening and has been practiced by successful gardeners over centuries. It involves specific plants being located near each other and their planting areas being rotated from one season to the next. These are the key benefits of vegetable crop rotation in any vegetable garden.
A Healthier Soil
To avoid the same crop taking the same nutrients from the soil every season, this style of planting follows a rotation plan that sees them in a different place over a set, three or four year cycle.
Designating different vegetable crops to different parts of your garden not only ‘gives the soil a rest’. In some cases it adds to the soil’s level of nutrition when crops like peas and beans actually feed it by enriching it with nitrates through healthy bacteria there. In this way vegetable crop rotation helps to maintain pH balance in the soil instead of the in-balance that comes from the same vegetable growing in the same place each season.
Reduction in Soil-Based Pests and Diseases
When including crops in a rotation plan, plant crops that are vulnerable to similar pests and diseases near each other. Carrots, parsnips and potatoes are prone to carrot fly and should be planted together while cabbage and Brussels sprouts are prone to cabbage root fly and should be planted somewhere else. When these vegetable groups are rotated, the likelihood of these diseases being established in the soil is reduced.
Higher Yield and Quality Crops
If you plant vegetable crops according to their soil requirements and other disease and pest-related needs, you are far more likely to yield larger numbers and grow quality crops. Start by planting the crops that will take most nutrients from the soil in the most fertile bed and the legumes (peas, beans) in your poorest bed. The results from the yield of each crop every year will speak for themselves.
Vegetable crop rotation sustains healthy garden soil indefinitely and fights disease and pests without the use of chemicals that damage the organic and micro-organic balance in your garden
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