Tino Carnevale explains the reasons for rotating your crops. Crop rotation is a way of minimising pests and diseases in your garden by not planting vegetables from the same family in the same soil year after year. It looks at the nutrition needs of crops to make gardening easier and more successful. At The Patch, Tino has created a 4bed rotation system.


Key points:
Split the crops into roots, fruit, leaves and legumes
Don’t put the same type of plant in the same soil year after year
Potatoes are great for breaking up new soils
Legumes (peas and beans) have nitrogen fixing nodules so are
good at building up nutrients in the soil
Add lime and compost to prepare the soil for peas and plant the
seeds twice as deep as the seed – up to the 2nd knuckle of your
finger
Follow legumes with a hungry crop like kale and lettuce
Follow leafy crops with root and fruiting crops
Carrots and parsnips and good for drawing up nutrients deep in
the soil
When beds are fallow, plant a green manure cover crop

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