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Hi everyone

Welcome to this edition of your Gardening Weekly, today's edition is entitled:

Crop Rotation For Vegetables

QUOTE: This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.
And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
- Alan Watts

When growing vegetables in the garden most people tend to grow the same crops year after year.
This is not surprising really, as we grow the crops that we prefer to eat and we also tend to grow the plants that we have the most success growing.

One thing that most gardeners seem to do is grow the same vegetables in the very same place in the garden each year.

You will tend to have a spot for your tomatoes and a spot for your pumpkins and so on.

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The problem with planting the same crops in the same place each year is the effect it has on the nutrients in the soil.

Plants will extract the nutrients that they need from the soil for their specific requirements each season.  By planting the same crops in the same places you can get nutrient deficiencies.

This is where crop rotation can enhance the value of your soil.  By rotating where you plant your vegetables each season you will be giving the soil the opportunity to produce better results as there won't be the same demands on the nutrients in the soil when there is a different plant growing their from last season.

To improve the soil quality even more, you should dig in the remains of the crops once the season has finished allowing some of those nutrients to be put back into the soil.  In the off-season you can also grow cover crops in the garden.  These are crops that are grown specifically to add nitrogen to the soil.  These crops have high nitrogen value in their roots and when they are ready, you dig them into the soil.

In doing this you can expect a better harvest each year as the new planting of vegetables will have more nutrients to feed them.

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Annie
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I'm not dead and I haven't stopped getting stuff done. This last month though has been a combination of stressful, frustrating, and frenetic so I haven't had much time to think about the blog. I'll try to rectify that this weekend with …

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Author: GardenFanantic Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:02 pm (GMT 0) Watched the video and it is great, I do love Alan and wish his show was still on.

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Yesterday (Sunday) was one of those rare, glorious days when it all comes together. The high for the day was in the mid-sixties, it was sunny, breezy, and I didn't have to do anything for anyone so I got down to work. …

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There are times it seems that in spite of ones best efforts the entire world conspires to exasperate any forward movement. Thus it has been lately. Oh, they were all needful and necessary things that got in the way, but what I really …

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Spring is busting out all over at Dun Hagan these last couple of weeks. Everything on the place that can is growing. I'm going to have a busy weekend getting the fertilizing, watering, and last minute pruning done. …

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