I know that Bonnie (GoneCuttin) put together a circle type rotation diagram that really made it easy for someone to see how to rotate plantings.
There are different ideas about what-should-follow-what but there are some principles that are based on shared diseases and pests that should be widely accepted. Rotation may also work on a similar pattern to companion planting where different crops have different needs.
Can someone post a diagram or information that can easily made into a diagram showing crop rotation? I will continue searching and see if there is something. It really should be possible to have a visual to make it quickly clear.
That is an excellent companion planting chart, Bonnie.
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Thanks Bonnie, that's very helpful. I notice there are no potatoes on your chart, but I suppose you would follow with the same crops as you would for tomatoes.
Posts: 105 | Location: North Idaho | Registered: March 21, 2012
eagerly studied your companion circle looking for onions - nope. Guess I'll have to do a major search for my companion planting book.
my garden is too small to do significant rotation, and part of it is partially shaded, so limited. I just try to mix things up and keep the soil super rich.
Posts: 1422 | Location: Indian Hills, CO - zone 4 | Registered: May 14, 2007
Sorry about no potatoes or onions. My gardens have many spots and the places that the onions and potatoes call home is not where I would add anything else, so they got left off. Never planned on putting the thing out to the world when I put it together, but it does have some good thoughts for others to ponder.
One thing I learned the hard way, asparagus does NOT like being with anything. I put pumpkins next to the asparagus bed one year the the asparagus has never come back for about 3' where the roots of the pumpkins were.
Bonnie
Posts: 27 | Location: Zone 5 Kersey CO | Registered: January 22, 2010
Something I learned the hard way was the bad effect sunflowers have on potatoes. I shredded my considerable crop of sunflowers stalks one fall and tilled them in to several beds. The following year my potatoes did horrible. Sunflowers contain an allelopath that can cause phytopthera (sp?) blight in potatoes.
Posts: 105 | Location: North Idaho | Registered: March 21, 2012
One thing I learned the hard way, asparagus does NOT like being with anything. I put pumpkins next to the asparagus bed one year the the asparagus has never come back for about 3' where the roots of the pumpkins were.
This surprised me GoneCuttin. Asparagus love to "hang-out" with tomatoes. I also plant a little lettuce to be shaded by their stalks. What they really don't like is having ANY competition close to them. I keep the tomatoes at least 5 feet away and they both benefit. Any closer and I'm sure the asparagus would object. Theresa
It wouldn't matter which crop you tried after tilling in sunflower debris. Just replanting there would do the same. I used to fill the bird feeder with a mix and everything reseeded beneath the feeder. Someone suggested just feeding sunflower seed and now I occasionally get a random sunflower beneath the feeder. Rarely get any weeds in that garden now. If course now the squirrel and voles think its their fridge. I'm going to try hot pepper on the seed and see if that cuts down on the feeders.
Posts: 3731 | Location: CT zone 5/6 | Registered: January 21, 2009
beneath the feeder. Rarely get any weeds in that garden now. If course now the squirrel and voles think its their fridge. I'm going to try hot pepper on the seed and see if that cuts down on the feeders.
