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What to plant after potatoes: a vegetable garden according to all the rules
11.01.2023 18:03
Updated: 13.04.2023 09:57
You can't do without crop rotation on a summer cottage. This is a necessity for owners of 6 acres and more spacious plots.
Planting vegetables in the wrong order can result in less than you hoped for. Here's how to use the space where potatoes used to grow.
Potatoes and relatives
You should immediately exclude all the nightshade family. After potatoes, eggplants, tomatoes, peppers will feel uncomfortable. In addition, hereditary diseases will be added and only pictures on the seed packaging will remain from the harvest. Fungus and pests will certainly live in the soil.
What to plant
Considering the legacy that the "second bread" could leave behind, it is reasonable to sow mustard, alfalfa, or legumes. If the field is going to rest, it is better to sow oats, wheat, or rye.
Vegetable followers
After improving the soil with green manure, you can safely plan a place for cabbage on the former potato bed. These crops have no common enemies.
Cucumbers will do well, and of the root vegetables, only carrots, beets and radishes.
Onions and garlic are excellent neighbors for joint planting, and also real orderlies, capable of stopping parasites and bacteria.
From the small greens, choose parsley, spinach or dill.
Berry crops, such as strawberries, should not appear near potatoes at all. Raspberries and currants are also a bad option, since they require a lot of nutrients, which cannot be said about the soil left by potatoes.
Among fruit trees, not the best options are apple, cherry and pear.
