Growing of vegetables and herbs in your garden for many people today - and useful and favorite activity.Of course, it is important to still get your site a good harvest.The best result is achieved when the rotation is correctly adjusted in the garden.
importance of crop rotation
If the same plants are constantly put at one place, they are the same enzymes (root exudates) poison the soil and the yield falls.Thus, with prolonged cultivation on one place celery, tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, cabbage are accumulated in soil pathogens of various diseases.Therefore, a rotation in the garden, that is, the annual change in crop-growing areas on the site.
The same culture and kinship with them is recommended to plant at the same place for at least three seasons.It is important to comply with this condition, because different crops require different fertilizers.Thus, for example, cucumbers, cabbage, zucchini, leeks, pumpkins are in need of organic fertilizers;carrots, beets, parsley - in the mineral;onions, garlic, herbs, tomatoes - and in minerals and organic matter.
advantages of crop rotation
crop rotation allows the garden:
- reduce the impact of pests and diseases that have accumulated in the soil, especially dangerous for past culture and less hazardous to the next;
- improve the intake of nutrients from the soil by plants;
- more rational use of mineral and organic fertilizers because of their action and effects in the different cultures;
- avoid negative phenomena which are caused by root exudates of plant species;
- digging deep to lead gradually (just under culture, needs a thorough loosening of the soil).
Organization rotation
In order to organize the rotation of vegetable crops in the garden and do not get entangled in the landing areas, often offers a solution.The whole garden is divided into four zones (although possibly three).Planting cultural groups.The first group - the vegetables that need organic.The second group - the vegetables that need fertilizer.The third group - vegetables, which are important and organics and minerals.A fourth group - the potato.
The next season to choose places for planting, so they approached the previous culture:
- Bean - cabbage, potatoes, root vegetables, tomatoes.
- potatoes - legumes and early cabbage.
- Cole - root vegetables, beans, tomatoes, potatoes.
- tomatoes, peppers - beans, root vegetables, cabbage.
- Luka - potatoes, squash, root vegetables, beans.
- root crops - potatoes, tomatoes, early cabbage.
- green - beans, cabbage, potatoes, pumpkin.
- cucumber and pumpkin - roots, early cabbage, tomatoes, potatoes.
also need to know the harmful predecessors.For example, do not fit:
- Cole - pumpkin, radish, rutabaga, radish.
- leaf beet - spinach.
- Luka - leeks, carrots, radishes, celery.
- Carrot - zucchini, parsley, tomatoes, fennel, celery.
- cucumbers, squash - the rutabaga.
- radish - kohlrabi.
- beetroot - tomatoes, spinach.
- tomatoes and other Solanaceae - cucumbers, zucchini.
How to increase the productivity of
observing certain rules of crop rotation in the garden, on a plot of land can be obtained and two harvests a year.For example, before planting of pepper, tomato, eggplant can grow radishes, spinach, lettuce.After the cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and turnips to plant radishes.After an early potato planted kohlrabi, cauliflower, broccoli.After the peas grow well radishes, lettuce, peppers, spinach.
between rows of vegetables can be planted fast-slow-growing.For example, between the rows of carrots, beets, celery can be grown lettuce, radish, spinach, green onions.Radishes and lettuce can be grown between rows of cabbage (early and late).Along the edges of flower beds foliage grows well.
more heat-loving plants (cucumbers, peppers, eggplant) is useful to grow among higher (tomatoes, peas, corn).
Rules J.. Seymour
According to John. Seymour, consider the following rules that make it easy to plan crop rotations in the garden:
- If heavy wet soils planted potatoes, other root crops can be grown there in the third, fourth year.
- Legumes like soil, well limed, which does not like potatoes.Therefore, it is better not to plant potatoes after legumes.
- Cabbage like lime, but not fresh.They are best planted after legumes.
- Radishes, lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, zucchini like rotted manure and compost.After them well to grow roots.
- In some places you can constantly put greens (lettuce, spinach, dill).
Table crop rotation
So, to make it easier to organize the rotation in the kitchen garden, the table of crop rotation will provide information in a visual form.
| Culture | Predecessors | ||
| Top | Valid | Bad | |
| Cabbage varieties of medium and late | Bean, cucumber, carrot, early potato | - | Beets, cabbage |
| Beet | cucumber, green, green manure, potato | tomatoes, onions, carrots, cauliflower and cabbage early cabbage | |
| Cauliflower and early varieties | Bean, onion, cucumber, green manure | tomatoes, carrots | Carrots, cabbage |
| cucumber, zucchini, squash, pumpkin, zucchini | onion, cabbage early and middle grades, cauliflower, garlic, legumes | potatoes, beets, cucumber, greens | tomatoes, carrots, cabbage late |
| Tomatoes | turnip, cucumber, greens, green manure, cauliflower | middle and late cabbage, beets, onions | Potatoes, tomatoes |
| onion, garlic | cucumber, potatoes, beans, cauliflower and cabbage earlycabbage | tomatoes, beets, onions, late cabbage | carrots, green |
| Potatoes | Beans, cauliflower and cabbage early cabbage, cucumber, green manure | greens, cabbage, carrots, beets | Potatoes, tomatoes |
| Bean | All varieties of cabbage, potatoes, onions, garlic, cucumbers | tomatoes, greens, eating root vegetables, green manure | Bean |
| Greens | Beans, cauliflower and cabbage early cabbage, onions, cucumbers, green manure | potatoes, tomatoes, greens, beets | late cabbage, carrots |
«Conveyor" vegetable
very convenient for a constant supply of fresh herbs and vegetables on the table, the so-called vegetable belt.Starting the conveyor when the spring we plant herbs to the garden.Crop rotation in this case helps to achieve the best results.
sequence of receipt on the table greenery, vegetables, root crops:
- spring: feather perennial chives, onion, welsh onion, parsley, Jerusalem artichoke tubers are left for the winter.
- little later: sorrel, young nettles, rhubarb, feather onions planted in late April.
- Then: fennel and radishes.
- From late May to early June: salad mustard, spinach, grown sprouts salad sprouts, basil, coriander.
- In mid-June: early tomatoes and cucumbers, potatoes, beets, carrots beam.
- End of June: seedlings grown cauliflowers and early.
- July: tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, beets, zucchini, carrots, broccoli, early potatoes.
- August: squash, beans, corn, turnips, pumpkin, eggplant, peppers.
- Autumn and winter: celery (transplanted into pots), feathers onion, watercress, alfalfa salad, mustard leaf grown at home.
Given all the advantages of this approach, it is worth remembering and about the work of the organization landings.Crop rotation in the kitchen garden this will help, but you need to apply it to their needs, abilities and wishes.
