While you’re making your garden plans for next spring, make sure you plan your garden so everything is rotated, and nothing is planted in the same spot it was this year.
Rotating your garden helps keep pests at bay naturally, and it can also help your soil.
Some plants, like beans, peas, and other legumes help make your soil better, other plants like corn take a lot out of your soil. Rotating your crops each year helps keep certain plants from robbing the soil of all of its nutrients.
Some garden pests over winter right in the garden, under the plants they plagued all summer. If you plant the same thing there the next summer the garden pests are ready to pounce. If you move your plants around you can keep them guessing.
A good way to divide up your garden is: corn, legumes, root crops, warm weather, and cold weather crops. Just rotate them each year in your garden plan.
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Great, informative post! Definitely something to take into consideration, and makes total sense not to plant the same veggies in the same space every year