Everything you need to know about crop rotation, from its benefits for home gardens to tips for implementing this tried and ...

When planning a vegetable garden for next year, one of the first thoughts that may come to mind after choosing which plants to grow is where in the garden they should be planted. Accounting for water, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... You grew tomatoes successfully in that sunny corner of your garden last year, so why shouldn’t you plant this year’s seedlings in the same spot? It’s ...

Cover cropping involves growing various plant varieties between cash crop rotations to ensure continuous soil coverage. This practice improves soil water infiltration, builds soil organic matter, ...

Although crop rotation is practised widely in Europe, notably for the control of crop pests, diseases and invasive weeds, monocultures[1] still dominate in Africa and Southern Asia. Elsewhere, ...

Rotating where plants are in your garden is a cultural practice that can reduce weed production, increase soil health, help with disease and insect management, improve soil structure, and increase the ...

Here’s a question for you: Can tomatoes be planted in the same garden spot year after year or must they be moved from one spot to another from one year to the next? When asked this question, I ...

Planning for 2025 means planning for uncertainty. At some point during the season, your farm will face too much water, or too little, high wind, heat, cold and everything in between. While not every ...

For success in next year’s veggie garden, the smart gardener considers not just the basics, like light and water needs, but what was planted in the space the year before. Crop rotation is all ...

Here’s a question for you: Can tomatoes be planted in the same garden spot year after year or must they be moved from one spot to another from one year to the next? When asked this question, I ...