What to plant after what: a cheat sheet for beginning gardeners for 4 years

Having heard about crop rotation, every gardener strives to make a planting calendar for the next 4 years, as experts advise.

Often, things don't go beyond words, and for beginning gardeners it's even more difficult. Here's a simple example of planting, just for this case.

You need to start by preparing the beds for planting. This is usually done in the fall, and only then do they plan where and what crops to plant. We will tell you what to plant after what.

Start

In the soil fertilized with compost or manure in the fall, you can plant lettuce or spinach in the spring. Having collected the greens closer to the end of spring, after these crops you can plant cucumbers and zucchini, pumpkins or squash, watermelon and melon. Finishing the season, sow peas or vetch, and then add phosphorus and potassium (40-70 g per square meter) during digging.

Second year

Next early spring, it is not worth starting to sow greens in the same beds. Here you will need to plant potatoes. After that, oats, phacelia or a mixture of oats and vetch are sown. Then the green manure is dug up and phosphorus additives (50-70 grams per square meter) and potassium fertilizers (40-50 grams per the same area) are added.

Third year

Now the soil is suitable for growing legumes, all types of onions, and root crops.

After harvesting, we dig up the soil, after which we do not add fertilizers, and the next – fourth – year we can plant early cruciferous vegetables here. These are watercress, arugula or radish.

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• 10 January 2023

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