Tino Carnevale explains the reasons for rotating your crops. Crop rotation is a way of minimising pests and diseases in your garden by not planting vegetables from the same family in the same soil year after year. It looks at the nutrition needs of crops to make gardening easier and more successful. At The Patch, Tino has created a 4-bed rotation system.
Key points:
- Split the crops into roots, fruit, leaves and legumes
- Don’t put the same type of plant in the same soil year after year
- Potatoes are great for breaking up new soils
- Legumes (peas and beans) have nitrogen fixing nodules so are
good at building up nutrients in the soil
- Add lime and compost to prepare the soil for peas and plant the
seeds twice as deep as the seed - up to the 2nd knuckle of your
finger
- Follow legumes with a hungry crop like kale and lettuce
- Follow leafy crops with root and fruiting crops
- Carrots and parsnips and good for drawing up nutrients deep in
the soil
- When beds are fallow, plant a green manure cover crop
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