Crop Rotation for the Vegetable Garden

To get the best from your vegetable garden, you should practise a crop rotation management system. This entails only growing the same kind of crop in the same position one year in four. By moving plant groups each year, the soil doesn't get depleted of particular nutrients as different types of vegetables use different ones from the soil.

Divide your vegetable garden into four sections and choose plants from the same group to go in each section. The next year move them all on into the next section as shown in the above diagram. That way each group will only go back to its original section every fourth year. This is an ideal system to use as part of organic gardening.

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