Tag: Crop Rotation
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Beginner Plants: Onions and Root Vegetables
The last of the 4 plots in the 4-year crop rotation is onions & root vegetables. Plants in the onion family, otherwise known as alliums, grow below the ground. Root vegetables are a collection of plants from different ‘families’, where the edible root grows below ground. Legumes will follow in this plot next year, with…
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Beginner Plants: Potatoes and Tomatoes
The next of the 4 plots in the 4-year crop rotation is nightshades, which are a wide variety of flowering plants. These plants are planted in the plot where brassicas were planted the previous year. Onions & roots will follow them the year after in this plot, with legumes the year after that. The beginner plants…
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Beginner Plants: Brassicas
The next of the 4 plots in the 4-year crop rotation is brassicas, the cabbage and mustard family. These follow legumes that were in this plot last year as they are heavy nitrogen feeders. They will be followed by nightshades, and then onions & roots the year after that. The beginner plants that I’ve chosen…
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Beginner Plants: Legumes
One of the 4 main plots in a 4-year crop rotation is legumes, which is the pea family. These plants replace the nitrogen in the soil by using Rhibozium bacteria, which allows them to extract nitrogen from the air. Plants use nitrogen for leaf growth, and because of this, green leafy plants use the most…
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Crop Rotation
What is crop rotation? Put simply, crop rotation is growing different crops sequentially in the same area. What I’m going to focus on here is a 4-year rotation, as splitting the crops into 4 categories works well. Each category has its own space in the garden, and shifts to another one each year, so by…
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