Crop Rotation

Despite our best intentions, crop rotation has gone out the window! Once again I've grown more veg than I can segregate, so we've bunged the surplus into any gaps we can find, wish us well!

 

Its fine unless you get some disease - which is unlikely.

Crop Rotation also helps with nutrient uptake - by varying the plants the nutirent requirements vary year-to-year.

Dunno if it helps, but I have a 4-year crop rotation but 8 beds. 4 of the beds are designated for the 4 rotation zones (Roots, Onions, Beans, Brassicas) but I find that I need Potatoes and More Brassicas too [because they are planted to far apart], so they are in a rotation in the second 4 zones - along with sweetcorn and sweetpeas. I then have static beds for Courgettes / Squash and I have rather over simplified as my "second set of beds" is not 4 but 7, so that allows two beds of Spuds, and some Gladioli as well as Sweetpeas, as cut-flowers for the house, but you get the idea

No idea if that helps though?

 

Your garden always sounds amazing Kristen. Have you a video of a walk through?

Here you must rotate crops because of disease and pests - the nutrients always were a huge issue but now we can bypass that with fertilizers.

That is the best way to do it Vince. I would find growing systematically to achieve the maximum and best looking crop would be work rather than enjoyment. I know that scientific approach is what is fun for some people but not me. I just stuff things in till there is no more room to stuff in more. When it all is going the garden is a real pleasure to be around. You may get stunted crops, but so what.