We know what you’re thinking: what is crop rotation? Well, it’s as simple as it sounds. Crop rotation is the practice of rotating crops belonging to specific groups around a vegetable bed from year to ...

Raising a vegetable garden with years of continuous success and high-yielding plants is a skill. However, it’s not just a matter of having a green thumb. Utilizing crop rotation in the garden can ...

No matter how small your vegetable garden is—raised beds or otherwise—it's crucial to not the same veggies in the same spot every year. Farmers and home gardeners use this practice, called crop ...

L ast week I’d written about how wheat and alfalfa have benefited by the use of crop rotations to reduce plant diseases and pest problems as well as improving plant productivity. However, crop ...

In “Kitchen Garden Living” (Cool Springs Press, 2025), author Bailey Van Tassel invokes an easily memorized rhyme concerning crop rotation in the vegetable garden: “beans, roots, greens, fruits.” The ...

Right now, it seems like vegetable garden season will go on forever. But we know that eventually the cold weather will show up and put an end to our garden. Since we know it’s going to happen, let’s ...

GUILFORD TOWNSHIP - When Lesher Poultry Farm decided to start adding a sunflower field to its crop rotation plan five years ago , the owners had no idea the difference it would make in so many ...

Crop rotation is a planned sequence of different crop types, such as spring-seeded cereals, fallseeded cereals, oilseeds, pulses, perennial legumes and other perennial species. Rotations also include ...

Midwestern agriculture contributes the vast majority of nitrogen in the Gulf of Mexico, causing an oxygen-starved hypoxic zone and challenging coastal economies. State and federal policies have tried ...