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For many gardeners, understanding crop rotation is the moment the ‘penny drops’, taking their vegetable growing to the next level of productivity!
In this short video, Ben explains a simple way to rotate your crops using his genius rainbow method 🌈 that will keep your soil healthy and your veggies abundant! 🍅 🍆 🥑
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Not cool to use gardening site for LGBT agenda. Plenty of other rainbows to use.
I like your videos but feel like a lot of the time what you talk about and the info is dependent on having that garden planner and not all of us can afford it.
When will the bonus chapter be sent out for your book. I pre-ordered it and put the order number and email in where it wanted on the website.
While I understand the need for rotating crops if you're monoplanting, in the ten years I've grown my own food, for the first five I crop rotated according to the rules. For the last five I've not crop rotated and the reason for this is I no longer monoplant. I poly plant (at least my own version of it!). My space is limited so things simply go in where they fit! I grow leeks, strawberries and beans together as well as zucchini, tomatoes corn and cucumbers together. Chillies go wherever there's space and the same for everything else including the flowers. Beets grow with cucumber and carrots as well as the odd tomato plant. There are only few things I don't plant together such as onions and potatoes (I only grow onions here in Tasmania in the winter anyway) or plants where there is a significant difference between pH acid/alkaline/neutral soil needs. Generally though so many things get planted together in the same beds I'm sometimes surprised at what I find! Each year things just go where they fit. I doubt there's ever been exactly the same things in the same beds in continuous years so I guess it's a form accidental crop rotation!. The interesting thing about it is everything thrives and I rarely have any pest issues. When I do they're minor and good bugs quickly deal with them. Most of my beds are no dig now and I only use compost, a bit of blood and bone, worm juice and a liquid product called charlie carp in the garden. Even in difficult years like this summer (we've had very cool grey damp weather this year. It's hardly felt like summer due to the LaNina weather effect) the garden has done very well although getting crops to mature has been a struggle. Due to the conditions most things are very late. It's autumn here now and my large variety tomatoes are only just now starting to ripen along with many other things. Still everything looks healthy and is thriving and I'm convinced it's because I plant so many different things together
If u grow a large variety of vegetables and have a large number of beds knock yourself out.
I can see why under certain systems this would be important , but under others its not so important , I suppose it depends largely on the balance of the garden and soil , either way potatoes are my fav for new beds
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Have you seen Charles Dowding videos? He has grown the same crops in the same beds for years without any problems or diminished produce levels,, so is crop rotation really needed?
Eelworm and onion rot sounds scary; dont think the missus be to happy about that
This is part of what makes gardening fun.
I did a lot of companion planting/interplanting where my beds were a variety of different vegetables and flowers throughout my garden. Should I rotate within the beds or how could I rotate to minimize pests? Thanks!
Scary to relocate when certain veggies did well where they were last year. But have 100 percent faith in your knowledge so I will go for it!
are rotation plants in pots need too ?
Can't wait to start my own veg garden. Ben you're an inspiration. I just hope I have your enthusiasm as I start my journey!
Another great video! All of your videos are extremely informative and helpful. Is crop rotation recommended annually or seasonally? I’m planning a fall garden for the first time this year. Most of the crops I’m planning are the same ones as my early spring crops – root vegetables and leaf lettuces. Due to sun and shade challenges, I was planning to use the same bed for fall as I did for early spring, with plans for rotating crops next spring. Should I reconsider this?
Do you follow the same rules for rotation if you are growing multiple crops in a single year. Say put cabbage in an line and after they have been harvested plant carrots or radish would you follow the same rules just in a quicker succession?
I have a small garden with just 2 growing areas about 4×4 meter. There are perenials, but otherwise I just plant whatever survives the bug assualt. I usual freshen up the beds with fertilizer + compost + soil. This year I have tomatoes, snow peas and perenials (citrus + herbs), and in the other bed sunflowers, okra, corn, cucumbers and melons.
Would I benefit from not mixing crop types and better crop rotation? Some do really well and some not so great… but that's just gardening.
3:32 theres my layout! glad i found this video, i was wondering how i was going to orient everything now i know. im going to do some raised beds with no dig method. ive learned so much from your videos ben, thank you for dedicating so much time to showing us all how its done. not sure if i want to plant my potatoes in the ground tho, theres one way ive been wanting to try for a long time and thats building a tall bin with a hatch on the side that you just open up and scoop everything out when its time then refill the next year. its a no dig method i read about years ago before i even decided i was going to make a vegetable garden.
You really need a mobile option