Is crop rotation necessary for a home vegetable garden? Do organic vegetable crops need to be rotated to be successful? In this video I will answer the question I get most often.. “Do I need to rotate my garden crops?
I’ll also show you the traditional way of crop rotation and a newer easier way to rotate your vegetable crops.
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33 Comments
Can you grow tomatoes in the same container soil for a few years?
Great video I stopped it for a minute to order your book ❤ thanks for all your help with growing 👍
My mom used to rotate her garden….but she had a big garden! I don't, because I have a backyard urban garden ! I don't have the room to rotate!😊
That's what I found out about crop rotation….you need a trellis in every bed. And using movable trellises that aren't planted in the ground aren't very stable/strong.
Good rain is all you need! No rotation!
And I have pepper plants still in the ground for 3+ years in a row even over winter .they are strong have lost 6 total in three yrs .yes I fert. well .the rest of garden does move . I'm in n.fl. it's about 103 today
Thanks so much Brian.❤️✝️🙏
I’m dairy farms, cow manure is the best fertilizer. The farmers don’t really rotate crops each year. They plant corn.
I think Charles Dowding talks about this. He just keeps adding lots of compost with each new planting. I simply cannot rotate. I have tiny veg garden, though I do mix things up a bit.
I rotated my garlic and zucchini this year and I had no zucchini bugs. I think it was because I moved the zucchini out of the place it was full of bugs last year.
This is so good to hear. I always plant my indeterminate tomatoes with trellises in my large raised bed. My determinate tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers, etc. go into bins and pots, so they get rotated and amended. Over winter, I have followed what you suggested. I ammend with alfalfa pellets and homemade compost, over which I place leaves. During the growing season, we plant companion plants and alternate organic granules with liquid fertilizer every couple weeks. Thanks for the confirmation and information.
Good information! Would you be able to put a link to the videos you recommend down in the description as well? The links don’t show up in the videos for me.
Hi Brian! Thank you for your videos. I have learned so much from you. I just purchased your book. 😃
Thanks!
Please: what it you decide to grow in grow bags or containers instead of soil?
I have your book and it's great. Love the way it's laid out, with companions listed right there with the specific garden plants. I spent MONTHS planning out what to plant in my geodesic dome greenhouse perimeter beds, combining crop family rotation with companion planting. It was a chore because I'd come across so much "new" information while doing research, and have to make changes. I diagrammed my greenhouse beds and made a chart for which crops to put in each bed, having some sections lie fallow, and nothing planted next to an antagonist. Then I decided to do more interplanting with herbs, leafy crops underneath taller crops, etc. I'll still stick to my basic rotation plan but it's much less stressful not to be so rigid. The one thing I would really like to have is how to time my plants not according to my climate zone for outdoors, but inside. I'm keeping track of the temps both outside and inside my greenhouse so I can get an idea of the climate zone and frost dates in there. Tricky, because in the dead of winter it can be in the upper 80's or higher on sunny days. But it keeps me young! LOL. Thanks for this video. It's very encouraging.
Rotating fields makes sense.
“Rotating” crops 10 feet away does not. The pests will still find the plant. The diseases are still close enough to find it.
Do you top dress your fertilizer over the mulch or do you pull the mulch back and fertilize the soil directly?
I put mulch water from above for 5 years most i got leaf messed a little
Giant storm just came through SW Wisconsin with 60+ mph winds. It broke and killed more than half my garden. I'm done, cutting it all down. Every single year it's something now, NEVER had these problems 38 years ago when I first started.
I enjoy your videos and learn things every time! I feel as though you are always honest and I appreciate that.
What's with the title? 🤨
What is the best plant identification app in your opinion?
Do leave the roots if the nitrogen fixers in the ground after you cut them back?
I have a very small garden. I just put my tomatoes in the raised bed one year and then the next year they are in pots.and I plant zucchini in the raised bed. I do add compost to the raised bed and the pots each year.
Brian.. another great informative video.
For many years, I didn't think I could rotate. Though after thinking about what you said.. I can do a variant of it for my squash and cucumbers.
Even though I put down a healthy amount of compost at the beginning of the season.
I rotate every year. It makes it easy because I'll usually grow from most of the 5 groups and have 5 raised beds. Green beans, onions, peppers, tomatoes, cucumber, squash, and the occasional eggplant. I'll usually grow the peppers with the beans. Seems to work out well for the past 8 years😊
And yes! I add composted manuer and mulch every year too.
The only time I rotate is if the plant in a container didn't do well. I have some low raised beds and a bunch of large containers. I fertilize some. But I usually forget. So far I have no set growing plans.
I'm glad you posted this. Given the fact that we should test the soil, determine it's health, amend according to the guidance in the soil test results, and mulch, I skip the whole "crop rotation" paradigm entirely. It really makes no sense (for raised bed planting, or relatively small areas of in-ground planting.) I can fully understand the approach for large farms with commercial activity. But not for a few 4' x 8' raised beds in a home garden. These steps, along with companion planting and intercropping, and as you say, vigilance and disciplined watering and feeding will will sustain the health of soil. As for till or no-till, I prefer light tilling by hand for a number of reasons – mostly having to do with ensuring drainage.
I don't rotate crops! Thank you for confirming my belief! Blessings! ❤
Don’t have enough room or raised beds in Various amounts of sunshine to rotate.just have to amend.
🤔 I figured that out when a perennial is in the same spot for years. Like strawberries, peppers and herbs. 🤭
The companion planting for beginners is awesome and easy to follow!!!