We’ve all heard you need to rotate your crops for a healthy organic vegetable garden. How do you rotate your crops?
Do you need to practice crop rotation for success? Or is there another easier way. Easy crop rotation? No crop rotation? In this video I’ll explain what crop rotation is, show you two different methods and show you what I do instead of rotating my crops every year.
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38 Comments
Hi 👋
Thank you, this was informative but not confusing. I am on year four of raised bed gardening and am having some of the issues you described. I just ordered your book. I am having so much fun in the garden at 61 years old following in my grandparents traditions.
Thank you
Thank you! You explained this really well
Thanks for sharing, that’s a great way to rotate garden crops❤️
Thank you for the info. I have the worst time planning my garden and really don’t have room to really rotate anyways.
Couldn't you shorten this by doing 1 and 2 together? Then 3 and 4 together? Then swap places each year. Then you only need 2 beds.
Hey Brian, good info as always. Would you indicate what can be used as compost. I use normally composted cow manure but what else can I use. Thanks
I have had my tomatos in my greenhouse, same spot for 4 yrs now, no problems
Wow thank you very much. Im a crop rotater with my raised beds. But ill have to remember this. I have an 8 x 4 bed which i multi plant with veggies and herbs flowers.
Thank you, Brian, for this easy to digest info on crop rotation. I'm a new gardener, and this is the info I needed to rotate the crops in my Greenstalks and raised beds.
In the recent generations of my family the "growing bug" has multiplied exponentially! Both my paternal and maternal grandparents raised veggies, chickens, cattle, ducks, fruit trees. I (at 65 yrs) am growing a raised bed garden,first time in four yrs. So far, great success! My youngest daughter is in Colorado growing in a green house (very short growing season in SW Colorado) She is also having great succes! The information you shared today is invaluable. Thank you
Thank you for making things so much simpler!! 💯 My 2nd year and I’m so overwhelmed in confused information, I was about ready to throw my hands in the air 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️💯😂❤️❤️❤️
Just few days ago I visited my parents and pruned the lower leaves of tomatoes in the greenhouse. I later asked my mom did she add anything to the dirt before planting and she said no😨… I immediately searched for options what she could dig in to add more npk. I had been adding horse manure pellets and slow release organic fertilizer to my container garden. I also use a liquid fertilizer once a week because it's easy enough because I water with a can. The problem with my mom's greenhouse is that she has a watering system… Could she add powder fertilizer straight to the huge water reservoir where the watering system takes the water? The system is only used for watering the greenhouse crops. I'm concerned if there will be enough nutrients in the dirt because she didn't add compost or manure when preparing the greenhouse beds. I found a slow release organic fertilizer (6-2-9) that had instructions to add about 5 dl per tomato plant. Since my mom had already planted the tomatoes I asked her to dig a hole near each plant…
Saved this video! Information overload, but good info that I will return to! I'm currently on year two of backyard gardening. Loving it!
How does sweet corn fit in?
Thank you for this! I will finish watching your video when I am done trimming out the leaves with downy mildew/ fungus.
I do a lot that you do but I see I can step it up
One thing I think you can do, is plant beans for the summer, and then plant brassicas beside them in late summer for the winter. Plant peas for winter where you want your nightshades in the summer, etc.
I have not tried this theory myself, but hope to get a better grasp on timing. Moving to different climates throw me off, and I kindof feel like I have to relearn everything.
Great ideas in this show. And I can't wait for the show on biofumigation!
Mannnn, what a great informative, concise video, and sooo timely for me. I've been wrestling with this conundrum for several years with a relatively small 300 sq ft plot, in some of which I'd like to grow more flowers – who doesn't want more flowers for pollinators and the kitchen table! As a Ruth Stout fan compost and mulch are givens. You've released me of all this time, effort, fretting and unsuccessful efforts to do the rotation by the book. Thanks again and take care as always. Look forward to companion video next week. It's OK, got it covered with the notification bell :O)
Looking forward to the rest of the series sort of speak! Thank you Brian! Blessings 🙏💞🤗
I am saving this video to remind myself to watch it again next year, before planning. I do very little crop rotation in my small but sunny garden, due to the fact that most of my beds have permanent trellises for vertical growing that I don't want to move around, with the exception of one larger bed that is large enough to hold two temporary cold frames side by side. Last year, I had powdery mildew on my zucchini. I had to cut out the effected leaves almost daily. (Naturally, I threw them in the garbage. Not in my compost bin.) This year, I bought seeds for a different variety of zucchini, planted them in the other half of the same bed, and they are staying perfectly healthy. I clean up my beds, pull out every bit of weeds and only then, turn the soil over in the Fall. In the Spring, I weed again and then dig in my matured compost in the top layer of the beds. I also spread and rake in a bit of all purpose fertilizer at planting time. This routine has worked for me for over 40 years in the same veggie garden. In our zone 5 (by US zoning standards), our Canadian winters are pretty cold. Our ground frost is deep. I am guessing that some of the diseases that tend to be perpetual in your much warmer climate, may get killed by our deep frost. If that happens to be true, then that may be one of the very few advantages that we Canadian gardeners have. I have to admit that every Spring, while I am impatiently waiting for our last frost date, I am pretty jealous of you when I watch you planting far ahead of me.
You are such a blessing! I've been struggling with this for years.
Where is it you live???? I'm always seeing what looks like a dry climate.
Talking about crop rotation say in semi-arid or arid areas as if this could POSSIBLY apply to areas that get 35+ inches of rain a year ain't a good idea.
Crop rotation is something that gets more critical the wetter the area is along with the plants you're trying to grow.
For people who are trying to use regenerative processes plant rotation when you're growing food becomes more important because diversity helps the soil. It helps put different nutrients into the ground. And you always want something growing in the soil.
will the crop fumigation get rid of vine bores?
Are you familiar with No dig gardening? I have been flowing this system for a few years and not doing any rotation with very good results. Charles Dowding from the Uk. Has a lot of info about it.
We've had a garden for years, but we expanded it a bit and put in new raised beds this year. It's all planted trying to use some of your tips from your book. everything is growing well…we'll see how well it all produces! Thanks for sharing all your tricks and tips!
I learned my lesson about moving my tomatoes. After eight years those beds got a horrible infestation of root-knot nematodes.
Where is your companion planting book?
Do you think you'll be doing a video on the no-dig potatoes you tried this year? Or, have you done one already that I might've missed?
I laughed when u said average gardener gives up after 2 years.. I been trying to grow something for 16 yrs😅 n this year I finally succeeded 😂
Question should I do crop rotation in pots as well
I read not to plant basil near cucumbers. Is thst true? Because i. My big rased bed i have tomatoes, basil, oregano, parsley, peppers, beans and cucumbers says that basil inhibits the growth of cucumbers
How do you fit this in with the sun/shade areas in your garden? I mean the beds where I would do this rotation are in full sun, and the leafy greens wouldn't like that so much. Do you just use shade cloth?
I have always followed a rotation of three groups (Roots, Brassicas and Other) but I have always wondered if it really does provide the right nutrients for the next group. Wouldn't the winter conditions leach any nutrients left in the soil from the previous summer?
It would seem that CORN goes in the LEAF cycle as a pretty high nitrogen need. Or, is there another nutrient that's even more important, to place it in a different cycle?
QUESTION. Do green beans fall in the legumes?
It's tough to manage rotation when you only have 3 small beds tho.
Your videos are so informative and helpful, i must get your book.