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Rotating Crops for a More Resilient Garden

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By Emily Swihart, Horticulture Educator, University of Illinois Extension As the growing season approaches, final plans are being made for home gardens. What to plant and where to plant are big questions that require multiple levels of consideration. What to plant requires an analysis of what the intended use is, what the growing space can support, and how the climate is going to impact production. Where to plant requires an analysis of the site…

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Rotating Vegetables Should Enhance Productivity

Warm season vegetables are beginning to replace cool season vegetables. Some types prefer to start earlier than others. A few might displace lingering predecessors before the predecessors finish. Timing is not everything, though. Location may be as relevant. If the garden did not move, some vegetables should. Many or most benefit from rotating crops. Vegetable plants are innately greedy in regard to particular nutrients. They might deplete such …

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