February has arrived and as a vegetable gardener, you are likely ordering seeds and making plans for your garden for the coming growing season. One factor to consider when planning your vegetable ...

If your tomatoes thrived one year but struggled the next, crop rotation may be the simple secret to keeping your Yakima ...

As the combines start rolling across the country farmers are focused on taking the crops off the land. However, it’s a great time for farmers to also be thinking about planting cover crops to help ...

Raising a vegetable garden with years of continuous success and high-yielding plants is a skill. However, it’s not just a matter of having a green thumb. Utilizing crop rotation in the garden can ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... You grew tomatoes successfully in that sunny corner of your garden last year, so why shouldn’t you plant this year’s seedlings in the same spot? It’s ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Today’s topic is crop rotation. Basically you don’t want to plant the same crop in the same area every year. Rotating your crops throughout the garden space will help maintain ...

Farmers and gardeners are always chasing that delicate balance between lush, thriving crops and sneaky pests lurking in the soil. But skipping one of the oldest tricks in the book—crop rotation—can ...

Farmers now have more reasons to consider rotating their crops, University of Alberta research shows. Widely used to restore soil health, the agricultural practice boosts the diversity of bacterial ...

No matter how small your vegetable garden is—raised beds or otherwise—it's crucial to not the same veggies in the same spot every year. Farmers and home gardeners use this practice, called crop ...

Few consider moving perennial vegetables when rotating crops in the vegetable garden. Asparagus, for example, can be produced in one location for up to 30 years, and it takes three initial years of ...