Proper Crop Rotation
by John Yazo
The purpose of crop rotation is to replenish and balance the nutrients in your garden soil. Done properly you will get great benefits and if done wrong you can have a disaster.
There are certain crops that can and can not be planted in the same areas. Plants that need the same nutrients will be no benefit to rotate with. You need to rotate with a crop that will replenish the soil with the nutrients that are missing in the soil.
Leaf plants like lettuce and spinach need a lot of nitrogen, rotating with peas or beens will replenish the nitrogen that they produce back into the soil.
When rotating crops, rotate with a crop that will replenish the nutrients back into the soil that was depleted from the previous crop.
Rotation of crops also helps to break the cycle of disease and pests in the garden. Diseases can build up in your garden soil when the same crop is planted in the same place year after year. When rotating make sure the crop you plan on using to rotate with isn't subject to the same diseases of the previous plant.>
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