We understand that after which you can plant

The agricultural term "crop rotation" is relevant not only in the conditions of vast collective-farm and sovkhoz areas, but also in a small area of the amateur vegetable grower. In simple human language, this means that it is necessary to follow the sequence, which can then be planted, and what is undesirable. The fact is that each plant consumes certain trace elements from the earth, and the cultivation of the same crop in one place drastically depletes the soil. Not to mention the fact that it is much more difficult to combat plant diseases, if they persist year after year in the soil.

With diseases and begin

They say, "I give my time to each vegetable". You can paraphrase and so: each vegetable - its pest. Disease-causing bacteria, pests and their larvae accumulate in places of "complementary" with their favorite vegetables, and it will be a huge mistake to plant the same plant or the same plant for the second season, but of the same species, for example, carrots and turnips. Here no chemicals will not help. It is difficult to name a more ineradicable and malignant disease of plants than phytophthora. It does not just destroy the crop in the vine, but it also persists in the soil for several years. This is why it is impossible to plant in the same place the same culture that is prone to this scourge, or other crops that also suffer from blight. Studying the topic, which can then be planted, you need to take into account this side: what vegetable than what is sick. So, phytophthora: tomatoes, potatoes, aubergines, pepper are the most infected. This means that none of these vegetables is suitable for planting after another. Especially if the precursor was ill with the aforementioned infection. By the way, you can not get rid of the change in the planting sites from the disease if you plant infected seeds or root crops in a new place - so you can simply spread the disease all over the garden.

What then you can put?

Once we have already talked about vegetables exposed to phytophthora, say, and about what they can be alternated with. After potatoes and tomatoes you can safely plant peas and beans, it will be very useful for the soil. Well go after them and cabbage, beets and carrots. For the same tomatoes, potatoes and aubergines, the best predecessors will be the same beans, cabbage, corn, cucumbers, onions, greens. Garlic feels very well after the legumes and squash cultures. But what you can plant after garlic - this is another topic. Onion and garlic are cultures of one species, and one can not be planted one after another, as well as planting in the same place year after year. They have the same diseases and pests, and this should be treated with all seriousness. And they consume the same substances from the soil, impoverishing it and requiring constant feeding. Much more is a list of what can be planted after onions and garlic. All kinds of winter and annual greens, legumes, cucumbers, early potatoes - they will all feel fine on former onion and garlic beds. After a bow you can plant radish, then there is a hope to keep it from soil pests. Cucumbers can alternate with cabbage and tomatoes, as well as beets and turnips.

And if there is no possibility?

If the land under the garden in the farm is very small, then in the question of what can then be planted, especially not clear up. For example, if a gardener grows potatoes in his home, it will occupy most of the area, and it will hardly be possible to transfer it to another place. The same with tomatoes, with cucumbers. There is only one way out: from time to time, to sacrifice the crop and give up completely from those or other vegetables, give the earth a respite and plant on it lighter crops - greens, legumes, onions, garlic. And do not forget about organic fertilizers and fertilizing - they allow to some extent to update the soil.