I totally agree my friend this is what I tell people all the time!!... Interplanting and Crop Diversity is far more important than Crop Rotation which is not even necessary on a home garden scale.... nature never crop rotates!!!... your videos are beautifully cinematic Huw!

@gardenlikeaviking

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@@pietsnot7002 hello my friend!!... I was not aware he had another channel

@pietsnot7002

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@@gardenlikeaviking Regenarative films is the other channel..

Why is it every time I watch your videos, I have this urge to drop everything and run out to my garden! 😊

Totally agree. We have to work with what we have and break some rules.

Absolutely yes!. Three years in my unique garden and I learned already that, the best garden is that where the gardener is observing all the time. Yes, that´s me. The novice gardener that perhaps understood the attribute of gardening as getting involve in Nature. Let it then to teach us!!! if is in my back yard, that´s my legacy then to my children. Love your work man

I used to rotate my crops - had drawings of where everything was planted and then switched it the following year. Only had 4 years to plan out. This year however has been anything but usual. Historical May high average temperatures is 17C. We've been in the 30s for over 2 weeks and no end in sight. Moving my lettuce to inside with led grow lights and going to grow lots of tomatoes and squash outside. Crossing fingers, no drought like 2 years ago.

As a beginner, crop rotation was a really tricky thing to get my head around in regards to the planning of it so I’m pleased to hear it’s not necessary.

@Mrbfgray

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Yeah it's widely accepted ideal if not necessary but it's somewhat controversial. Deff don't let it get in your way. Similar to complex composting vs a pile on the ground with everything recently living tossed in (my way), perfection the enemy of GOOD.

@beccihayward975

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😮😊

@Rozdraws

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I recommend planting tomatoes/eggplants/peppers or potatoes/sweet potatoes in 30-40L bags in the sunniest spots. That usually gets you a really nice yield. For greens and more shallow-rooting plants like lettuce, you could get a garden soil bag and place it flat, then cut out openings for your seedlings/seeds.

I don't do crop rotation in my garden because I always have a multitude of plant types in each bed. I focus more on other needs such as sunshine/warmth, wind protection, shade etc and top up my beds with compost/bokashi each year where needed. :) Works very well for me 😊

@DragonmasterKeel

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have you ever thought of trying KNF(Korean natural farming) I hear it has many things that can help gardens(or full on farms) including making your own fertilizers at cheaper prices then store bought ones

I did crop rotation religiously for years but in the past few years I’ve let it go. Relieved to hear you talk about it like this… I’ve been feeling weird about not doing it even though i don’t think it even mattered. Love your info and thoughts on things 👏

I am so happy to hear you discuss this! My garden is too small, is a container garden, and is located in a couple of areas around my home to take advantage of the available sunlight, so it's not a practical practice for me to undertake. So, I just do my very best to keep pest pressure and disease under control and plant my tomatoes and peppers in the sunniest areas every year.

Good to know! I love when gardeners smile from seeing a plant. That comfrey was huge indeed!

i would never have thought about crop rotation in a garden, cos i'd be topping up the raised beds with fresh compost..

@bipbip6626

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This is what i ve seen on other great gardeners utube channels! They say the opposite, and it makes sense too

@saal0

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diseases could also be harboring below your topup. But if youve not had any issues then it doesnt matter

@Karincl7

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​@@saal0it s not it doesn t matter, it will come

@rosemaryogilvie6842

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@@Karincl7 not necessarily. Been ignoring the rotation advice for years and never have disease issues.

Totally agree with you! For most of us who have at-home veggie gardens, not only is it impractical to rotate crops around due to space constraints, but a lot of the reasons for doing so just aren't applicable. We tend to add tons of organic material to our gardens year over year; it should be enough to replenish nutrients and keep the soil healthy so that crop rotation isn't needed. Little volunteer weeds should also help replenish the soil with nutrients since we're not using herbicides, and especially when we use no-dig methods and compost all the leftovers of our plants. When we don't use insecticides, the insects will always be breaking down new organic material to add nutrients to the soil, diluting the build up of diseases and providing plants with food. The only disease I've had trouble with in my garden is blight; so far it seems to be basically solved by harvesting and pulling potato plants early rather than letting them go full season. New potatoes are delicious so it works out great :) Otherwise my garden has pretty much taken care of itself disease-wise, but that won't be true for everyone of course! In my garden I haven't found much need for rotating crops.

I enjoyed the video and have read some of the comments... I understand that there is a difference between gardeners and farmers. Farmers may have to do crop rotation because they're working on a larger scale whereas us gardeners have way more control over soil textures, temperatures, fertilizers and pest control.... Farming vs. Gardening? But!!!! Hugh is always right! ❤

great vid Huw! I totally agree and like very much when you say "gardening is about your personality"! thanks

I'm doing crop rotation at the moment since my garden is new, I don't have enough compost yet to do no dig and our season is so short that you can't do much succession planting. 5 months is a maximum for cold hardy plants to grow at all, three months usually for tender plants. A night ago we had a freeze that probably just killed all the currant and bilberry flowers... But one day my garden will be a thriving no dig paradise that has a fabulous soil that keeps my plants healthy, crop rotation or not 🥳

This was great for me to see because I have been stressing out about it because half my garden is full sun and the other is shade so to rotate them means sun lovers won't get the sun they need

It has been dry in UK for over a month ... & no rain on the forecast. It is very unusual for Wales not have have any rain tbh. Wales has been hotter than the med ... Bit of a gardening nightmare. The nasturtiums in the poly tunnel are very impressive !

@lat1419

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My polytunnel marigolds and nasturtiums are epic! It's been unnaturally dry in Wales, and just off to water the outdoors stuff (broad beans, peas, sweet corn, aliums). My no dig tomatoes in the polytunnel are always humungous. Cucumbers are always kept in pots to make sure they stay well watered.

@user-ed7et3pb4o

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It’s only been two weeks of dryness here in the midlands, but I agree, watering has been challenging

@lat1419

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@@miguel5785 the elephants are still all in the circus. If you're referring to man-made climate change, it's actually simply normal climate change, as experienced by humans growing food for thousands of years with both feast and famine. The recent volcanic eruption put more CO2 into the atmosphere than the entirety of all humans in all of history. Personally, I would like a but more CO2 to keep my garden green. Sure it's going to be a challenge, but it always is! That's why we do it, to enjoy those many victories of ripe fruit and wholesome veg, all created by us against whatever trials nature has lined up for us. Last year we had a relatively cold and dark August but I still had record crops harvested.

I agree wholeheartedly. I gave up trying to rotate in my raised beds years ago. Mainly because I grow disproportional amounts of certain crops, and secondly because the challenges (pests) I deal with are too mobile to be outrun by simply moving 10 feet. I found it much more productive to heed the microcultures created by sun, wind and water patterns in different corners of my plot.

I gave up on crop rotation a couple of years ago. Although I have four conveniently equal-sized raised beds, they all have slightly different microclimates, since two are nearer the side fence than the others. Plus I tend not to grow root vegetables anyway, as they are cheap and take up a lot of space in my tiny garden - I get far more "profit" from crops like peas, climbing beans, tomatoes, salad leaves and herbs than I would from potatoes!

Always so informative AND encouraging! Please keep it coming.

Crop rotation is also good if you are doing large scale growing. Monocropping is drastically dangerous to the soil if done year after year, because there is no diversity of nutrients within the soil that allows the crops to thrive, thanks for the upload!

@wildwaninggardening

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Very true!!

So glad to see this video. This is essentially the wisdom that I have arrived at after years of suburban, raised bed gardening. If I am topping off and amending my soil every year, I don't really need to worry about what has been in tge space the previous season. Great thoughts!

At first I have my doubts when Huw said it’s boiling hot day. But then seeing him sweating like crazy near the end, I believe him 😂. Southeast Asia would like to welcome you to the hot club.

We have a large in-ground garden and our winters kill everything not under plastic, so rotation works well for us as we basically start all over in the spring again. We have six plots that rotate every year, and one plot of permabeds for things that will overwinter in the ground without plastic so that we're not have to try to mix those with others that completely die-off. I group things like spring and summer plants, plus prepare the corn plot by beans one year, cover crops the next, corn, and follow by low feeding grains and such the year after.

Thank you Huw, The big benefit of having living soil, inter cropping , companion planting and adding compost is we plant by different rules. A micro environment such as yours invites so many bennies that help in the battle ang keeps the soil alive. Ben Fatto

I always felt that if you were amending the beds properly before each planting, then you shouldn’t have to rotate. When you have pests, it’s essential to treat those pests to control and contain the problem. Things like tomato horn worm can be helped by working the beds and removing any larvae you find.

Thank you, I was literally just wondering whether I should rotate my beds this year as I head out to plant the corn and pumpkins. I really didn't want to change where they were last year so this helped to make the decision easier!

Brilliant video and so well explained. It will help a lot of people. I grew up with crop rotation but know it wouldn’t enter my head and has made it much easier and enjoyable to garden.

Thank you! Very detailed explanation that makes sense. Also the first time I hear this. I’m more concerned about one type of plants absorbing the same nutrients than pests. I did somehow rotate in the past to allow soil to benefit from diversity. This being said, adding natural plant fertiliser and complementary things such as egg shells is in itself enriching the substrate. I never faced any issue with a lack of goodness in the soil so not rotating but rather having a variety of plants, never exactly the same each year works for me. E.g. where there was broccoli, I could plant red cabbage and it’s fine. Great videos, keep it up!

I agree 100%! I don’t do crop rotation or plan to unless I run into a problem but then as you said, that’s not really rotation. I plant my beds more of sun hours and plant the tall tomatoes in the beds at the back and the short stuff in the front beds 👍

I also gave up crop rotation after having to move to a home with a smaller yard and limited sunny patches for raised beds etc… just amend your soil! Compost, green and brown leaf mulch,jadam fertilizers. Build healthy soil so tilling isn’t necessary. Grow grow grow and keep beds from sitting with bare soil. Not surprising I learnt this all from Huw and it works WONDERS if your a small scale urban gardener 😊. Thanks Huw!!!

This is my first year planting a full garden of food (I've grown in containers before) and while I was doing my no-dig/permaculture research, I remember thinking that surely if you're succession planting, there's not much point in worrying about crop rotation. I have a succession plan for this year and I might swap my beds around next year (switch my onion/garlic/tomato bed with my bean/pea bed etc) but apart from that, I don't see the point in complicating it. If I encounter any problems next year or the year after, I'll deal with them then but until then, what's good enough for Charlie D is good enough for me 😀

@pietsnot7002

Жыл бұрын

Love that name 🤣 do you also make that crazy sound during mating season? 🤪

Great! Very comforting 😊

At allotment sites the situation may be different. I have, even after the first year planting brassicas noticed "something" that deforms the roots a little bit but the plants look healthy. Clubroot? Nematodes? I have not had it diagnosed. My point is, that these things might easily spread where you grow next to (or when you take over a neglected plot) others that might not take care of the soil in the same way you do. My plan is to boost soil health and in the meantime I will rotate my brassicas. When I no longer see any sign of affected roots, I can let the crop rotation thing go.

That's clarified something that's been on my mind for a while.

I'm in Chicago and we've got no rain for a month, and 85 degrees F every day. Hope you get some relief soon!

I'm experimenting this year by growing purslane in the one veggie bed I have as a living mulch. It's yummy and a nitrogen fixer. I may end up regretting it but that's okay

If you practice polyculture then crop rotation is not needed.

@nathalieforde4205

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Feed your soil. That’s it! New gardener here. But so far so good 😊

@HadassahHaman

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True❤

@Yoyoyomcyoyo

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organic carrot farmers have entered the chat

Agree. I do a modified approach, I do a lot of inter-plantings within a theme of rotating major crops; corn, tomatoes squashes and beans.

To prevent clubroot, my brassica "rotate" through the beds. This leads to e.g. fava beans (before kale) being "rotated" too, but that's just a side effect. Everything else is sown in trays and planted wherever space is available, sometimes between the brassica while they are still small.

I try to move things around on my allotment if possible but have found one particular that my onions love and don’t get onion rot so plant there every year. The same with runner beans. Some kind gardener erected a scaffolding frame for my runner beans so they go in the same spot every year. I do amend the soil and add compost and manure each year and so far it is working for me. Thank you for all your advice.

Totaly agree with you here. I think it is far more important to raise healthy plants in a polyculture.

Quite enjoy planting legumes with leaves. Having the best lettuce growing this year than any other. Of course I didn’t plant the lettuce it was a volunteer. But I’d LOVE to think it was my choice of planting beans there that caused them to do so well! Not rotating tho has made it much easier to just focus on growing among other things that I have taking up my time. So definitely agree! Break the rules and make this easier.

🍃 I live in the caribbean and use crop rotation, the purpose is to rest and feed the soil. Your video has good points and ideas. Thank you for sharing. Oh nice knees...

Thank you for this! I'll check out Charles video too. I find my space is just too restricted to rotate my crops. I only have so much"full sun"garden spaces so obviously the sun loving veggies have to go there every year. Thank you for validating my situation!

I stopped crop rotation a few years ago. I also believe that companion planting alleviates, or even solves, the need to rotate plants.

its a been over a month with no rain here in pennsylvania, and im running out of rainwater. great videos man

Good stuff, Huw

Is Verry good you garden,,I'm from Indonesian organic farming

I only have six growing areas in my garden , so actual rotation is impossible. I add fresh compost each year also throw a few chicken manure pellets, so this year I planted a few brassicas in a space where my onions were but something ate the roots, so I’ve resown and am keeping them in pots until my Broad bean come out so they can go there. Also I have to grow somethings in my sunniest areas like climbing beans and leafy things like spinach and lettuce in the shadier parts , thanks Hugh for reinforcing the fact it’s not always necessary to rotate on three yearly cycles , as you say it works for Charles.

I'd add allium leaf miner to that list of problematic pests. I lost 4 beds of onions to them last year. This year I covered them with Enviromesh to keep the flies off. I didn't realise they have a 2 stage growth cycle so planted onions in the same beds. Luckily I don't have any sign of them this year but I feel like I dodged a bullet.

@annteather2826

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I have also had to use the ultra fine insect mesh for same reason. It has been spreading from Eastern Europe since about 2002. I love leeks and it is almost impossible to find good fresh ones in the shops; they are always rootless and rotting 😢

@WaddedBliss

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@@annteather2826 I pulled my first two allium miner-free onions today.

@annteather2826

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@@WaddedBliss well done! I don't think I had any leeks last year as too late sowing. This year I have some short seedlings in plugs but not yet had time to weed/clear the bed, let alone move the hoops to protect it 😪

@WaddedBliss

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@@annteather2826 It's been a terrible year for all crops. That bloody cold spring has retarded everything by a month.

@annteather2826

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@@WaddedBliss now we have drout on the he way. I am changing my habits & am trying to fill the beds with plants, or at least mulch bare soil. Right now, lots of bare patches for crops to grow into the space. I need more quick catch crops or insect friendly flowers. Still I planted out 4 okra plants tonight & 3 in greenhouse. Not sure if the outdoor ones will thrive. I can only try...

My first year gardening I just had containers and there wasn't quite enough sun for much to reach harvest other than a few beans. This is the second year, and I built a raised bed in full sun and intended to follow Huw's book Veg in One bed. I got ideas from it, but ran out of time and wanted to use the seeds I already had (which didn't exactly match the book). Then one day I felt too overwhelmed by time constraints to follow any guidelines about spacing, proper timing of specific crops, or proper companion planting but felt I needed to get seeds in the ground without delay. So now, in one 8' by 4' bed, I have sunflowers, spaghetti squash, butternut squash, corn, onions, cantaloupe, zinnias, alyssum, marigold, beets, carrots, radishes, Swiss chard, lettuce, peas, and beans. Everything's way too close together, crowded and messy, but still doing okay so far. The idea of worrying about crop rotation is pretty alien to me! I've already enjoyed eating the radishes, chard, and lettuce. If anything else actually makes it I'll be pleasantly surprised. I'm just hoping for the best and trying to learn from it.

@juanitaglenn9042

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I think you did well! You are enjoying your garden and learning all at the same time! I am a mix of super planned and a totally lazy gardener...lol. I experiment with all sorts of ideas every year. I just threw a pile of unmarked mixed seeds in one of my beds this year. I noticed a couple bean and pea seeds, but other than that have no clue what was in it. I also tried a crop rotation on my 2 main beds that get densely planted anyway, and thought my root bed might want to swap with the brassicas. I live in a short growing zone, so everything gets planted at once, unless frost kills and I need to plant again. Lol.

@freedombug11

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@@juanitaglenn9042 Thank you! I figure it's so much better to just do it even knowing it's probably "wrong" than not to do it at all. It's all so new to me, that I enjoy seeing whatever grows and whatever happens because chances are I've never seen it before. I don't think I live in an area with short growing season, yet it does seem like it to me - most things are so slow that I don't seem to have time for succession planting, but I don't really know why. But I guess that's why I wanted to put in everything at once, too. Like you, don't know if there will be time (or if I'LL have time) for anything else after that! Glad to know someone else takes a laissez-faire approach. Planning's good too...maybe next year. Happy growing!

@juanitaglenn9042

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@@freedombug11 👍

@emmelia-6068

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@@freedombug11 You said "it's so much better to just do it even knowing it's probably "wrong" than not to do it at all" and I completely agree. Going with the flow in the garden really helps me deal with anxiety and perfectionism, which paralyze me when trying to figure out crop rotations and such. This year I am in love with my garden because I just "went for it"! Thanks for your comment, and happy gardening!

@freedombug11

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@@emmelia-6068 Thanks, Emmelia! Same to you!

my potatoes and tomatoes have been growing in the same spot for 23 years (when we moved into this house) I have never had any disease problems thankfully, every winter the areas are turned and well manured

As long as the small ecosystem in a container/bed/plot are in balance esp with microbes. Crop rotation is not necessary

Thank you, Huw for this video. I too have a small garden and love to grow garlic and onions. Everything I’ve read recommends that garlic never be grown in the same area after 3 years. I find myself somewhat struggling to find a different bed to plant in come October for my garlic. Can you clear this up as I’ve found it to be confusing. Thank you.

I don’t do it because I don’t mono crop anything

I am severely limited for growing much of anything, huge amount of shade because of mature trees, growing only in containers. I do a small bit of rotation, mostly after the cool weather crops are getting raggedy. The weather, both last year (only got to +10 in June) and a big blast of heat (+30) in May made some plants bolt long before they grew much. I concentrate on the soil, adding worm compost, tea, and making an obviously limited amount of compost outdoors. If I get the luxury of crop rotation, good, if not, just leave it be.

Thank you very much for a very interesting subject 'Crop Rotation'

My grandparents never do crop rotation in their garden, and its beautiful every year...for 50+years

It makes sense at field-scale - a common rotation in New Mexico is a few years of alfalfa, then a couple years of chili peppers or corn, with livestock grazing the stubble in the winter. But it's not worth the hassle of trying to rotate when you have aq few 4x10ft beds.

That comfrey! Holy crap, mine only gets to be about shin high. I also don't bother with crop rotation, other than planting whatever I'm in the mood for. I'll also plant legumes to regenerate soil. Red Ripper cowpeas are doing great now that it's getting hot where I live.

I’ve grown potatoes in the same patch for 10 years with no problems at all, I’m resting it this year purely because I’m trying potatoes in containers for the first time

How Huw yes since I saw Charles I grow potatoes in same place well early ones followed by leeks every year. Have always grown peas and climbing beans in the same place every year. Everything else fits in where there is a space I don’t think of rotation since Charles. My dad would say not good as he was the best traditional gardener I have known and my mum. 👍🙋🏻

@mandytaylor1008

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That should have said hello not how Huw unless you an Indian🤣

Wow! Hi. Huw

Perfect common sense!!

I don't monoculture in a bed. I like to grow a mix up of crops, so tomatoes, lettuces, dwarf beans and dotted with onions. I just add new compost each year. Some beds are more suited to some crops, eg more shaded. I grow what suits the area. Never had a problem. I always believed that crop rotation was more for the farmer.

With all your knowledge of polyculture and permaculture, I was surprised to see the dinosaur kale planted all alone and distanced like that. I know it grows bigger, but myself, especially with soil as good as yours, I'd plant tubers, salad greens, or something like sweet potatoes just to take advantage of the bed and keep plants and microbes happy.

I learned from John Seymore that it was a god idea to rotate and I followed his surgestians. I did'nt think of it as something, I had to do and it worked for me. Howevwer I see your point in not doing it. It makes it easier to do it as you do. Steen DK.

Curious...How HOT and humid IS it where you live? I live in East Texas...Just got rain in the very early morning. It is miserable outside because we have full sun and humidity. 🥵 Needless to say, I am dreading going into the garden today! 😑 So glad you addressed this topic of crop rotation!! Thanks! It certainly cleared some things up for me! 🤩

@homesteadgmad8223

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@Alison new Thank you! I knew he lived somewhere out there but didn't know the details! 😊

For me the bottom line is, the smaller your garden, then the more intensively you can use organic techniques to improve the nutrients in the soil. If you are always adding the right nutrients, and keeping your soil healthy, then proper crop rotation doesn't matter as much. Compare this to a larger Market Garden where efficiencies of scale come much more into play. Having said that, I definitely rotate my tomatoes and sweet corn between 3 beds, such that the corn is grown in the same bed every 3rd year.

I agree it's not that important. Particularly if your garden is healthy. If not you may benefit from some strategic moves.

I don't do plant rotation. my garden beds are all full south facing so I always plant in rows from east to west and one behind the other. the plants that need the most warmth go in the front row, the plants that tolerant the cold or shade come behind. I pay attention to the height of the individual plants so that they do not shade each other if this is not desired. this system works great. I pay attention that there is a soil improving plant in each bed to support the others. so the soil is never depleted.

Here is another example why I don't bother: last year rust on garlic, this year no problems, healthy garlic growing in the exact same spot.

On reason I heard to rotate was for pests e.g. vine bore, mexican bean beetle.

@carolinebrett2634

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And carrot fly

Thank you for all the info. Can we have a vid were you can explain to some of us all about liquid fertiliser, all about it, what is what, the containers, etc, please.

@angelabyrne154

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He has done one, just search soil amendments or jadam. It’s quite an instructive video.

I’d love to know what your experience has been with growing strawberries in the same bed for many years. Does that work well too? Or do you plant them in a different spot every few years?

@ingela1767

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They do tend to reduce their fruit output after a couple of years (3-5 in my experience). But if you take out old plants and groom their "offsprings" and top up the beds with nutrients, you can grow them in the same spot year after year. :)

@cosmibird4209

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@@ingela1767 thanks for sharing your experience. That‘s what I‘ve been doing. This year the strawberries in the older bed are looking a bit less happy than the plants in the newer bed so I was wondering if I needed to plant them in a different spot next year after all. The plants in the older bed might just be a bit old though, I might just need to replace most of them with healthy younger plants. I‘ll do that I think and see how they develop.

Thanks for the very informative and persuasive video. Would love to get your reaction to something: Mike McGrath of 'You Bet Your Garden' in the US takes the position that crop rotation is mostly unnecessary, with one exception: tomatoes will get verticillium or fusarium wilt when planted in the exact same spot for 3 or more years. I'm curious whether you agree with that assessment, or if there's another strategy you use to avoid that problem.

Great video what winter crops can I still sow now ?

@freedombug11

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Check out his video from June 1, two days ago.

Great video! This year I am moving to 5 year rotation from 4, it is proving challenging and my potatoes are in large pots due to lack of bed space! Please will you put the clickable link to recommended next to watch on screen for longer? I watched this right to the end and now advert blocks my ability to slide backwards to click the link. Then some other random plays and backspace won't go back to your video!

At least you have seen the sun 🤷‍♀️ It’s freezing here on the North East coast 😳 My poor sweet corn looks like it’s going to die 😢 🇬🇧

do you have any advice on ants all of my 5 raised beds have them. How do i get rid of them .

You have comfrey as tall as you!! I didn't know that was possible.

I plant with such a high, mixed diversity I don’t worry about it.

For me, crop rotation is simply, "don't plant the same thing in the same bed two years in a row." Beyond that, it doesnt really matter. There are certain plants like beans and peas that I don't move around from year to year since I my trellises stay where they're at, and they do just fine. I only rotate my garden because some bugs will lay their eggs in the soil and attack the plants the following year.

I don't rotate crops. My garden has spots of high sun and high shade. The amount of light is what decides my garden plan.

Hi .. a bit off topic ... Can anyone suggest why you should want to put fresh grass clippings in a black bin bag and leave in sun ? ... I thought it would go to black sludge anaerobic and toxic ... And spontaneous combustion.. thanks

Isn't companion planting the better prevention and solution than rotating? Maybe I'm stupid but it would seem to make sense to me to just do companion planting

No need to rotate crops if you rotate the ground. Applying compost each year is changing the soil that crops grow in.

How do I deter rats eating my seedlings?

It's ok I think when it's your back garden, but if you're on a big(ish) allotment community and someone has a disease it all together it's a big plot of land, we had blight and cabbage clubroot (?)sorry not sure what it's called in English, and you're just renting the space, so inherit all sorts of hidden "gems"

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I would say that, if you grow a big field of corn, potatoes or cereal, crop rotation is very important. For small gardens and raised beds, it makes no sense

@apboyce

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Yes, it really does depend on the crops and how it’s grown. There is a lot of perennial plants in those beds I see in the video. There is merit to some rotation even in small gardens to make sure soil borne diseases don’t become an issue, but definitely different than some large scale growing.

Grandma never rotated her crops.

companion planting mitigates the need for rotation

there's a thing on the internet about planting beans/peas and onions/leeks together it says not to is this false

I don't think crop rotation has ever been practical for the home gardener. For large ag mono-culture crop rotation would be very necessary, but not for the small home garden poly-culture.

Have grown fruit and veg in same spaces in our garden for 40 years and never had an issue. As long as fertlise each year it is fine. Otherwise its a total waste of time. Different for farmers etc but in a small/medium garden why bother? Its also totally impractical usually.

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I don't do crop rotation. It is nonsense. My allotment neighbors all do it very diligently, but i dont see them do any better than I I do sequential planting and intercropping that's my 'rotation'

"the time has come to look at crop rotation, and i haven't spoken about it" - Because Charles Dowding has been speaking about it that whole time, and longer! Which is probably where you learned it from, and if so you could have given him props 🙂

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He did mention him.