Crop rotation KEEP IT MOVING
Jan 31, 2021
4 minutes
WORDS BY ANGELO ELIADES
PHOTOS BY
HONEY ATKINSON
Practising crop rotation when growing annual vegetables not only increases long-term yield, it preserves the fertility of your soil while deterring pests and diseases.
We can’t treat annual vegetable plants like perennials because they grow in a completely different way. Perennials are longer-lived and send their roots down deeper to access more water and nutrients. Generally slow feeders, perennials use only moderate amounts of nutrients to drive equally moderate rates of growth.
Annual plants, which have less than a year to complete their life cycle from seed to seed-bearing plant, are much shorter lived. Most have
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