Understood what can be planted after

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

The agricultural term "crop rotation" is relevant not only in the conditions of vast collective farm and state farm areas, but also in a small area of an amateur vegetable grower. In simple human language, this means that you need to follow the sequence, what can be planted after that, and what is undesirable. The fact is that each plant consumes certain trace elements from the earth, and growing the same crop in one place greatly depletes the soil. Not to mention that it is much more difficult to fight plant diseases if they persist in the soil year after year.

Start with diseases

They say "every vegetable has its time". You can paraphrase it like this: every vegetable has its own pest. Pathogenic bacteria, pests and their larvae accumulate in places of “feeding” with your favorite vegetable, and it will be a huge mistake to plant the same plant or another, but of the same species, such as carrots and turnips, on the same bed for the second season. No chemicals will help here. It is difficult to name a more ineradicable and pernicious plant disease than phytophthora. She not only destroys the harvest onroot, but also remains in the soil for several years. That is why it is impossible to plant in the same place the same crop subject to this scourge, or other crops that also suffer from late blight. When studying the topic of what can be planted after that, it is necessary to take into account precisely this side: which vegetable is sick with what. So, phytophthora: tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants, peppers are most infected with it. This means that none of these vegetables is suitable for planting after the other. Especially if the predecessor was ill with the aforementioned infection. By the way, you cannot get rid of the disease by changing the planting sites if you plant infected seeds or root crops in a new place - this way you can simply spread the disease throughout the garden.

What can be planted after that?

Since we have already talked about vegetables susceptible to late blight, let's also talk about what they can be alternated with. After potatoes and tomatoes, you can safely plant peas and beans, it will be very useful for the soil. Cabbage, beets and carrots will go well after them. For the tomatoes themselves, potatoes and eggplants, the same legumes, cabbage, corn, cucumbers, onions, greens will be the best predecessors. Garlic feels very good after legumes and squash. But what can be planted after garlic is another topic. Onions and garlic are crops of the same species, and they cannot be planted one after another, as well as planted in the same place year after year. They have the same diseases and pests, and this must be taken seriously. Yes, and they consume the same substances from the soil,impoverishing it and requiring constant feeding. There is a much longer list of what can be planted after onions and garlic. All kinds of winter and annual greens, legumes, cucumbers, early potatoes - all of them will feel great on the former onion and garlic beds. After the onion, you can plant a radish, then there is hope to save it from soil pests. Cucumbers can be alternated with cabbage and tomatoes, as well as beets and turnips.

And if it's not possible?

If there is very little land for a garden on the farm, then the question of what can be planted after that is not particularly clear. For example, if a gardener grows potatoes, then it will occupy most of the area, and it is unlikely that it will be possible to move it to another place. The same with tomatoes and cucumbers. There is only one way out: from time to time to sacrifice the harvest and completely abandon certain vegetables, give the earth a break and plant lighter crops on it - greens, legumes, onions, garlic. And do not forget about organic fertilizers and top dressing - they allow you to renew the soil to some extent.