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How to Make Use of Crop Rotation
Farming and gardening used to be very simple pursuits, but the advances in gardening methods have made this quite a science. Due to the hard work and research of thousands of individuals, we now have gardening techniques that can greatly increase what we produce.
When it comes to actually setting up the garden, you need to take in to account the need for crop rotation. This technique is necessary to keep the soil healthy and prevent it from being drained too quickly. Improper crop rotation will lower yields for subsequent years.
To use crop rotation, you must first make your garden in to sections. It is in these sections through which the crops will be moved. You only have to rotate crops once a year, as there is no advantage to doing it more.
There are four kinds of vegetables which occupy the segments. The first is heavy feeders, as they use the most energy out of all the categories. Corn is the most well known heavy feeder to most people.
Medium level feeders are one level below heavy feeders. These include lightly demanding crops that do not grow very tall but still have a lot of leaves, like tomatoes.
Light feeders use the least nitrogen out of all the categories. If you only used light feeders and did not use crop rotation, you would probably be fine for many years. In the light feeding category, the plants are very basic and are essentially only the food, like carrots.
Crop rotation would not work if not for the last category, which is the soil building group. These unique plants leave more nitrogen in the ground than they take out. The smallest of plants constitute this class, including beans and peas.
The best arrangement is to have it ordered light to medium to heavy to soil builders. In this arrangement, each grouping gets exactly the right amount of nitrogen, and you will have an efficient garden.
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