vegetable
patch management
crop
rotation
key crop rotation
Key crop rotation is where you select three or four key crops that
take up the biggest area in your vegetable garden and rotate them.
All other vegetable crops are planted in the spaces not covered by
your key crops.

An example of key crop rotation. Corn in the front raised vegetable
bed, onions in the middle bed and tomatoes in the far bed along with
some sunflowers. The corn, onions and tomatoes are key crops while
the sunflowers are one of the other vegetables that I plant in
spaces left after the key crops have been planted.
The key crops are not fixed, it all depends on what vegetables you grow that take up the most space. Nor do they all have to come from different vegetable groups, though that is preferable.
My four key crops are tomatoes, corn, onions & carrots and broad beans & peas. I rotate these four groups of vegetables across five beds of varying sizes, planting all my other vegetable varieties that I grow in whatever space is left after the key crops have been planted.
But whatever crop rotation you are practicing don’t forget to record what was planted where in each season. If you do that you will find it much easier to follow your particular plan.
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