Crop Rotation Backyard Garden. Controlling pests and disease - Pests and diseases often have a particular type of vegetable that they assault while leaving others alone. Using crop rotation helps keep insect pest and pathogen numbers at low levels.
Crop rotation in a vegetable garden means not planting the same crop or member of a plant family in the same location. Planting chives, carrots, basil, borage, thyme, marigolds, nasturtium and parsley with the nightshade family helps, to deter unwanted pests and attract useful ones. Crop rotation helps prevent diseases, especially for tomatoes.
Intercropping or "alley cropping" is a system of planting alternating crops in the same space.
In addition, the type of vegetable grown in a particular area in a garden has a direct effect on the fertility of the soil in that area.
Crop rotation is crucial for soil health, nutrient balance in the soil, and pest and. Controlling pests and disease - Pests and diseases often have a particular type of vegetable that they assault while leaving others alone. Peppers also plant well with tomatoes.
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