Crop rotation in the garden. What then can be planted in the garden

Growing vegetables and greens in your garden for many today is both a useful and a favorite activity. Of course, it is very important to get a good harvest from your site. The best result is achieved when properly adjusted crop rotation in the garden.

Importance of crop rotation

If the same plants are constantly planted in one place, then their enzymes (root secretions) etch the soil and yield decreases. So, for example, with long growing in one place celery, tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, cabbage in the soil, the pathogens of various diseases are accumulating. Therefore, a crop rotation in the garden is necessary, that is, an annual change in the places of cultivation of crops on the site.

The same cultures and relatives with them recommend planting in the same places at least three seasons. It is important to observe this condition, because different cultures require different fertilizers. For example, cucumbers, cabbage, zucchini, leek, pumpkin need organic fertilizers; Carrots, beets, parsley - in mineral; Onion, garlic, greens, tomatoes - in minerals, and in organic.

Advantages of alternating crops

Alternating crops in the garden allows:

• Reduce the impact of pests and pathogens accumulated in the soil, especially dangerous for the past crop and less dangerous for the next;
• Improve nutrient intake from soil by plants;
• More rational use of mineral and organic fertilizers, taking into account their effect and aftereffect on different cultures;
• Avoid negative phenomena that are caused by root secretions of a given plant species;
• Deep digging to lead gradually (only for crops that need deep loosening of the soil).

Organization of crop rotation

In order to organize a crop rotation of vegetable crops in the garden and not get confused in the landing areas, the following solution is often suggested. The entire garden is conditionally divided into four zones (although possibly three). We plant cultures in groups. The first group is vegetables, which need organic. The second group is vegetables, which require mineral fertilizers. The third group is vegetables, for which both organic matter and minerals are important. And the fourth group is potatoes.

For the next season, it is necessary to choose such places for planting plants, so that they can be approached by previous cultures:

• Bean - cabbage, potatoes, root vegetables, tomatoes.
• Potatoes are legumes and early cabbage.
• Cabbage - root crops, beans, tomatoes, potatoes.
• Tomatoes, peppers - legumes, root vegetables, cabbage.
• Luke - potatoes, pumpkin, root vegetables, beans.
• Roots - potatoes, tomatoes, early cabbage.
• Greenery - legumes, cabbage, potatoes, pumpkin.
• Cucumbers and pumpkin - root crops, early cabbage, tomatoes, potatoes.

You also need to know the unacceptable predecessors. For example, do not fit:

• Cabbage - pumpkin, radish, rutabaga, radish.
• Leaf beet - spinach.
• Luke - leeks, carrots, radishes, celery.
• Carrots - zucchini, parsley, tomatoes, fennel, celery.
• Cucumber, pumpkin - rutabaga.
• Radish - kohlrabi.
• Beetroot canteen - tomatoes, spinach.
• Tomatoes and other nightshade cucumbers, zucchini.

How to increase the yield

Observing certain rules of crop rotation in the garden, one crop can yield two crops a year. For example, before planting peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, you can grow radish, spinach, lettuce. After cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, plant a turnip and radish. After early potatoes, drop kohlrabi, cauliflower, broccoli. After the peas radish, salad, pepper, spinach grows well.

Between the rows of vegetables slow growing can be planted fast-growing. For example, between the rows of carrots, beets, celery, you can grow salad, radish, spinach, green onions. Radish and salad can be grown between cabbage rations (early and late). On the edges of the beds grows green.

More heat-loving plants (cucumbers, peppers, aubergines) are useful to grow among taller ones (tomatoes, peas, corn).

Rules of J.Seimore

According to J. Seymour, it is recommended that the following rules be taken into account, which make it easy to plan crop rotation in the garden:

1. If potatoes are planted on heavy, moist soils, other root crops can be grown there for the third, fourth year.
2. Beans like soil, well-limed, which does not like potatoes. Therefore, it is better not to plant potatoes after legumes.
3. Cabbage lime is loved, but not fresh. It is better to plant them after the legumes.
4. Radish, salads, cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini like pereprevshy manure and compost. After them it is good to grow root crops.
5. In some places, you can always plant greens (leaf lettuce, spinach, dill).

Table of alternation of cultures

So, to make it easier to organize a crop rotation in the garden, the crop rotation table will give information in a more visual form.

"Conveyor" of vegetables

It is very convenient for the constant supply of fresh herbs and vegetables on the table so-called vegetable conveyor. This conveyor begins, when in the spring we plant greens on the garden. Crop rotation in this case helps to achieve the best results.

Sequence of receipt on the table of greenery, vegetables, root crops:

• In the spring: a pen of perennial chives, onion-batoon, parsley, tuba of Jerusalem artichoke, left for the winter.
• A little later: sorrel, young nettle, rhubarb, feather of onions planted in late April.
• Then: dill and radish.
• From the end of May to the beginning of June: salad mustard, spinach, salad cabbage, basil, coriander.
• In mid-June: early tomatoes and cucumbers, young potatoes, beets, carrot.
• End of June: cabbage grown by sprouts color and early.
• July: tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, beets, zucchini, carrots, broccoli, early potatoes.
• August: patissons, legumes, corn, turnip, pumpkin, eggplant, sweet pepper.
• Autumn and winter: celery (transplanted into pots), feathers of onions, watercress, salad alfalfa, mustard leaf, grown at home.

Considering all the advantages of this approach, it is worth remembering about creativity in the organization of planting. Crop rotation in the garden will help, but it needs to be applied to their needs, opportunities and desires.