THE IDEA IN PLAIN LANGUAGE
Rotation is a planning practice that tracks crop families over time. A garden history is more useful than an ornamental color-coded chart without dates.
What’s worth understanding
Source-backed guidance
Tomato guidance recommends rotation and sanitation as part of disease management.
Take it into your growing space
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Record the family and date of every crop.
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Look for repeated families in the same bed.
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Use local disease guidance when selecting the next crop.
THE EASY MISTAKE TO AVOID
Rotation does not guarantee that a pest or disease cannot occur.
Follow the connections
These are editorial learning connections, not claims that one practice scientifically causes another.
Crop rotation