Garden Series: Rotation Planting

By Tim Goodwin

April 16, 2025

Source: Almanac

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• Rotation Planting

  • Once you’ve fertilized your field (each year’s mulch plowed under helps, so do shredded leaves), you can improve it by rotation planting. This means dividing your land or garden into several areas and planting different things, changing them each year. Alfalfa, corn, and wheat are good choices to rotate. Even if you don’t use the crops for food, your soil will be improving instead of deteriorating. 

  That’s about all you can do in your first year. Repeated each year, however, this process will turn even solid clay or sand into a fine garden in about 5 to 6 years. If that seems like forever, don’t worry about it! That doesn’t mean you have to wait that long to harvest vegetables. Most gardens grow under less than optimum conditions, and the harvest still turns out great! Your garden will be easier to care for and more productive each year.  

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