Kitchen Garden Forum

I'm working on a website about kitchen gardening and created this image. I figured I might aswell share it with others too. Feel free to use it for the magazine or anywhere else you need it!



On top the broccoli or any other kale. Then off with the leaf veggies, then fruit bearing plants and root veggies, potatoes, finally beans and back to the kale. Or skip a few inbetween...

The experienced gardeners on here are probably familiar with crop rotation. For the ones who aren't: each crop in the garden uses certain elements and at the end of the season those elements get used up. For this reason we use crop rotation: only place the same crops on the same ground once every 4 years.

Tidy but is that four years?
I do move some things around but a lot of my space is taken up with permanent crops. Soft fruit, rhubarb, asparagus (actually I'm between beds here), jerusalem artichokes are all permanent.
I also find that some crops are still in the ground when the next is due or that I need the space for something else!

Crop rotation is not for permanent plants, although they also use up elements in the ground. Everywhere I read about crop rotation it mentions four years. I can imagine that one year would be quite short for crops that have been growing there the whole crop season that counts maybe 6-7 months in some cases.

Now this is amazing, I love this