Saturday, August 11, 2012

Video - How to Rotate Your Crops

This video gives you a good overview of how to design a sustainable garden rotation plan. (You may want to view it full-size, as he does a bit of drawing and typing of crop names.) You can draw this out on paper, and just keep a garden ledger - rotating beds in sequence each year like he describes is very helpful, as it's easier to keep track of, and you can plant crops which will benefit from coming after the previous crop. This works well even in very small gardens - especially if you can do multiple succession plantings throughout the year, although you may need to add additional compost or organic fertilizers if you're gardening a small area heavily.

How to rotate your crops! Crop rotation. HD
Organic Gardening, Beekeeping and Seed Swapping Network workwithnature-info.webs.com This is a Sketch on how to make your own crop rotation. It is the tool for organic gardeners, to prevent harmful pests attacking your plants. It is the cornerstone i...

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