Crop Rotation in the Home Garden

The How Do Gardener ^ | February 20, 2012 | Rick Bickling

[orsonwb]

Learn the basics of crop rotation, implement these techniques in your home garden, and the increased health and production of your vegetables will make you glad to put the effort into doing so...

[orsonwb]

In planning this spring's garden, I found this information to be helpful. The source is not exactly the Wall Street Journal, but I have found good information on this local website in the past. Since the site is copyrighted, I thought it would be best to post an excerpt with a link to the original article.

[Just mythoughts]

Thank you for the post. I have read that potatoes should not be planted in the same soil after two years.... And I have read that corn and tomatoes despise each other.... And some plants are segregationist and have big time issues with other plants. So much to learn and apply.

[Sparky1776]

ping

[Free Vulcan]

I have a 6 year rotation on my garden. Plot 1 is brassica/onions in the upper half, grains and oilseeds in the lower. Plot 2 is greens/roots, Plot 3 peas/dry beans/misc legumes, Plot 4 is okra/corn/snap beans, Plot 5 if squash/cuke/melon/watermelon, Plot 6 is tomato/pepper/eggplant.

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[Berlin_Freeper]

I use a six hour rotation on FarmVille.

[Bailee]

ROFL. Not to nutritious

[BenLurkin]

We just try to not plant the same thing in a bed two times in a row.

[call meVeronica]

Bump

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

If you raise pasture animals then you are best with a eight year rotation. One year as pasture and one year fallow.

You will rarely have any soil problems with a eight year rotation.