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, ...

February has arrived and as a vegetable gardener, you are likely ordering seeds and making plans for your garden for the coming growing season. One factor to consider when planning your vegetable ...

Integrating animals and crops on a farm provides an excellent opportunity to cycle nutrients and reduce external inputs. A ...

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 ...

Crop rotation is one of the oldest and most effective strategies for organic pest control and maintaining healthy soil in your garden. Specifically, it means the planned order of vegetables or fruits ...

With crop rotation, you avoid planting the same vegetables in the same places every year. In fact, Iowa State University Extension notes that “For crop rotation to be most effective, gardeners should ...

February is whizzing by and before we know it, planting season will be upon us. Avid gardeners have been poring over seed catalogs, inventorying their home seed libraries and planning this year’s ...

A new study shows that rotating cucumber with cabbage or rice differentially reshapes soil bacterial diversity, community ...

“Succession” is best defined as a sequence of events happening one after another. In the practice of gardening, this means a technique where new crops are planted regularly to maintain a continuous ...

The initial stage of Salinas Valley's vegetable crop rotation is concluded, with early-season lettuce harvesting in July. Post-harvest, ground preparation commences for the subsequent crop cycle. Ryan ...

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 ...