If you’ve ever planted the same vegetable in the same spot every year and noticed your harvest getting smaller, you’re not alone. That’s where crop rotation comes in. It’s a simple method of switching ...

Crop rotation can have many benefits for your vegetable garden, such as those outlined by our experts. Pest Management. Growing the same crops repeatedly in the same spot can lead to a buildup of ...

Crop rotation also allows horticulturists to manage their soil fertility and balance nutrients used by certain families of plants. “Some crops are heavy feeders of nutrients and can deplete the ...

Crop rotation key to healthy garden . Originally published February 28, 2007 at 12:00 am. Early spring is the time to plot out your vegetable garden.

In “Kitchen Garden Living” (Cool Springs Press, 2025), author Bailey Van Tassel invokes an easily memorized rhyme concerning crop rotation in the vegetable garden: “beans, roots, greens ...

image: Crops being managed in crop rotation. view more . Credit: USDA NRCS Texas. A new computational model shows how different patterns of crop rotation--planting different crops at different ...

Since we know it’s going to happen, let’s talk about a couple of things that often get overlooked that could help us out next year: crop rotation and cover crops. If you are like me, you have ...