How To Rotate Vegetable Crops
- May 12, 2010
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Rotating your veggies helps reduce insects and plant disease, and allows the soil to recharge and rebalance its minerals.
You Will Need
- A guide to vegetable families
- Various vegetable seeds
Step 1
Get a guide to vegetable plants from a home store or garden supply shop. It will list the different plant “families” or groupings.
Step 2
From season to season, avoid growing vegetables from same family in the same garden.
Step 3
For the best results, develop a three-year rotation plan, such as legumes like peas, beans, and peanuts the first year; onions, carrots, and tomatoes the second; and turnips and kale the third.
Step 4
Follow your three-year plan and plant seeds from a different family in each garden plot at the start of the growing season.
Did you know? George Washington Carver, who developed hundreds of uses for peanuts, introduced the concept of crop rotation in the American South.
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