Crop Rotation Tips

2008-05-02T05:01:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the Wonderful World of CROP ROTATION

In this issue I'm showing you some secrets about getting the best out of your Crops.

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The Art of Crop Rotation.

Soil fertility is the gardener’s bank account with nature. What he takes out in currency of vegetables, fruit and flowers, he must replace by annual manuring and cultivation, in order to maintain a credit balance. Particularly this is more apparent in the vegetable garden. To produce a rich and healthy development in those parts of the vegetable which we deem edible, the root of the carrot, the head of the cabbage, the stem of the celery, the bulb of the onion and the fruit of the tomato. All of these listed plus many more require a strong combination of plant foods, rich rotted vegetable compost, and all factors that create fertility.

We have an article on how to make your own organic garden compost at:->

http://www.gardencomposthelp.blogspot.com/

The vegetables differ in their habits of feeding, foraging, and living. Consideration of these habits enables the gardener to cash to cash his fertility in crops more frugally, without undue inroads on his capital. Hence the vegetable merry-go-round, or the Rotation of Crops.

The principle of crop rotation ensures that no vegetable has to take on where a vegetable of the same nature left off. The same demands for the same foods are not made in the same way on the same patch of ground two seasons running.

The danger of exhausting the soil in one direction is avoided, and the state of soil malnutrition that leads to disease is side-stepped. Cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, savoy, swede, turnip, borecole (Kale) all belong to the same family, the wallflower family cruciferae.

Grow any or all of them on the same ground year after year and the incidence of club-root is likely to follow.

A shallow-rooting vegetable draws its plant nutrients mainly from the top 6 inches of soil. If it is followed next year by a deeper rooting crop, carrots or parsnips, drawing its food from lower in the soil, the top 6 inches is enabled to make a recovery.

All crops give back to the soil as well as take from it. Continuous growing of the same vegetables on the same ground tends to make the soil "vegetable-sick" for that particular crop.

Even in the best regulated of gardens, pest infestation of a particular crop is always a possible occurrence. An increase of the pest or disease, from eggs or spores left in the soil, the following season may be avoided by rotating crops.

We hope you have enjoyed this months Blog.

Next month we will be looking at how to prepare healthy growing conditions.

How to Rotate and Grow your favourite Crops.

Articles to follow over the next few months.

How to Grow a Bumper Crop.

Cropping Guide

Strip crop rotation

Strip rotation under cloches.

Planning a three year rotation.

We have many free to view websites packed full with Fuchsia photo’s and growing tips. Just click on the link at the top of the page named.

HOW TO MAKE MONEY FROM YOUR GARDEN.

Or go to

http://www.dalley-nurseries-onlinehome.org/

Other blogs and articles of interest are at:-

Step by step to Growing Eye Catching Fuchsias click on:->

http://fuchsiagrowinghelp.blogspot.com/

A guide to the Management of all Types of
Chrysanthemum, Queen of the Autumn.
click on:->
http://chrysanthemumgrowinghelp.blogspot.com/

Lettuce all year round, my favourite Webb's Wonderful
click on:->
http://lettucegrowinghelp.blogspot.com/

Nutritionally, the Tomato is highly esteemed for its
health protective Vitamins and Mineralsclick on:->
http://tomatogrowinghelp.blogspot.com/

arden Design for all Gardens Large or Small
click on:->
http://gardendesignhelp.blogspot.com/

Build up the fertility of your Garden Soil with
rganic Vegetable Compost:->
http://gardencomposthelp.blogspot.com/

One of the best loved soft fruit's, how to grow the easy way:->
http://strawberrygrowinghelp.blogspot.com/

How to Grow Indoor Cucumbers of the highest quaility:->
http://cucumbergrowinghelp.blogspot.com/

Melon growing, a Delicious Summer Fruit for
Greenhouse and Cloche Cultivation:->
http://melongrowinghelp.blogspot.com/

A Complete Guid to the Production of Grapes
http://grapevinegrowinghelp.blogspot.com/

Growing and Showing these very popular
fragrant Garden Flower:->
http://sweetpeagrowinghelp.blogspot.com/

Carnations a Complete Guide to their Successful
Cultivation:->
http://carnationgrowinghelp.blogspot.com/

Asparagus One of the most delicious early summer
vegetables:->
http://asparagusgrowinghelp.blogspot.com/

Loganberry a very Profitable Cane Fruit for Garden Cultivation
http://loganberrygrowinghelp.blogspot.com/

Raspberry a Profitable Soft Fruit, Full Details of How
to Produce a Bumper Crop.
http://raspberrygrowinghelp.blogspot.com/

Blackberry a Profitable and Easily Grown Hardy Fruit
for Garden Cultivation.
http://blackberrygrowinghelp.blogspot.com/

Rose a Complete Guide to the Cultivation Of all the popular Types.
http://rosegrowinghelp.blogspot.com/

Crop Rotation, Catch Cropping and Successional Cropping
http://croprotationhelp.blogspot.com/

Abelia an attractive leaf-losing or evergreen flowering shrub
http://abeliagrowinghelp.blogspot.com/

Abeliophyllum a hardy climbing shrub ideal for wall covering
http://abeliophyllumgrowinghelp.blogspot.com/

Climbing plants for all areas of the Garden outdoor or indoor
http://climbingplantgrowinghelp.blogspot.com/

Abies-Silver Fir, Hardy evergreen trees for planting on lawns.
http://abiesgrowinghelp.blogspot.com/

Acanthus, Hardy Perennial Plant valued for it Cut Flowers.
http://acanthusgrowinghelp.blogspot.com

Hardy Border Plants, For a Continuous display of colour.
http://hardyborderplanthelp.blogspot.com

Antirrhinum 'snapdragon' most Popular of all Bedding plants
http://antirrhinumgrowinghelp.blogspot.com

Achillea, a showy front row Plant for the Herbaceous border.
http://achilleagrowinghelp.blogspot.com

Aquilegia, favourite Hardy Border Flower, ideal for cutting.
http://aquilegiagrowinghelp.blogspot.com

Aster, 'Michaelmas Daisy' a showy hardy Perennial for late summer.
http://astermichaelmasdaisygrowinghelp.blogspot.com

Clematis, beautiful Spring and Summer Flowering Climbers for Walls and Arches.
http://clematisgrowinghelp.blogspot.com

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