‘Crop rotation is usually done on a three- or four-year cycle,’ explains Graham Smith MCIHort, gardening expert at LBS ...

Crop rotation can have many benefits for your vegetable garden, such as those outlined by our experts. Pest Management.

Crop rotation is one of agriculture’s oldest cultural practices. In a home vegetable garden, crop rotation is achieved by changing the location of vegetables within the garden each season.

Crop rotation also allows horticulturists to manage their soil fertility and balance nutrients used by certain families of plants. “Some crops are heavy feeders of nutrients and can deplete the ...

Most of Rasgorshek’s row-crop irrigation is via furrow and wheel lines. "We’re on a high-lift project. We pump out of the Snake River; 550 feet is our lift," he notes.

In “Kitchen Garden Living” (Cool Springs Press, 2025), author Bailey Van Tassel invokes an easily memorized rhyme concerning crop rotation in the vegetable garden: “beans, roots, greens ...

When people talk about crop diversity, they may be referring to one of a few different farming practices. While crop diversification always involves increasing the number of species present in a ...

Since we know it’s going to happen, let’s talk about a couple of things that often get overlooked that could help us out next year: crop rotation and cover crops. If you are like me, you have ...