Humans have a tendency to be creatures of regular habit – I’m aware that I am.\u00a0 So when I first started vegetable gardening, my instinct was to find a spot for my tomatoes and then plant them there year after year.\u00a0 However , as I later learned, this wasn’t good for my garden.\u00a0 Variety is what a garden needs – the methodical revolution of plants from different families.\u00a0 There is a technical term for this : “crop rotation”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Crop rotation in a home vegetable garden requires planning the location of each planting to guarantee you aren’t planting a vegetable from the same family of veg in the same location in a three year cycle.\u00a0 Crop rotation is a very important part of an ecological gardening strategy, helping gardeners :<\/p>\n
* Protect against pests and illnesses<\/strong><\/p>\n Vegetables in the same plant family are commonly at the mercy of the same pests and illnesses ; crop revolution helps protect plants by making the location less hospitable to these organisms.\u00a0 By introducing a plant in a different family, the pests and diseases die off because of lack of a food source.\u00a0<\/p>\n * Guard against nutrient depletion<\/strong><\/p>\n Vegetables in different families has different nutrient requirements.\u00a0 By revolving plant families, you are less certain to deplete the soil of individual nutrients.\u00a0 Some veggies ( like beans and peas ), basically add nitrogen to the soil.\u00a0 So revolving beans and peas with veggies that require a large amount of nitrogen can be a useful plan for shielding soil fertility.\u00a0<\/p>\n * Improve soil structure<\/strong><\/p>\n Healthy soil contains a large amount of organic material which is home to a number of constructive microbes.\u00a0 These microbes play a very important part in maintaining good soil structure, making it simpler for veggies to grow as roots have an easier time penetrating the soil.\u00a0 Crop revolution protects these microbes by helping the soil retain its organic matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n To achieve success with a crop rotation programme, gardeners need to keep records from year to year in order to track the positioning of each planting within the vegetable garden.\u00a0 Without extensive notes, it would be difficult to manage a crop revolution programme.\u00a0 For those that do not enjoy record keeping, you can use a garden planner application which handles the tracking for you and places plants in the best location considering crop rotation needs.<\/p>\n Examine out her website for much more information on Vegetable Gardening For Beginners<\/a>, which also has lots of info on how to plant a vegetable garden<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Humans have a tendency to be creatures of regular habit – I’m aware that I am.\u00a0 So when I first started vegetable gardening, my instinct was to find a spot for my tomatoes and then plant them there year after year.\u00a0 However , as I later learned, this wasn’t good for my garden.\u00a0 Variety is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14,1,10,13,5,8,4,12,15,3,9,6,11],"tags":[161,29,59,241],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-garden-design","category-container-gardening-annuals","category-container-gardening-ideas","category-container-gardening-shade","category-container-gardening-soil","category-container-gardening-tomatoes","category-container-herb-garden","category-container-vegetable-gardening","category-fall-container-gardening","category-flower-container-gardening","category-fruit-container-gardening","category-organic-container-gardening","category-patio-container-gardening","category-winter-container-gardening","tag-food","tag-gardening","tag-home","tag-home-improvement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}