In “Kitchen Garden Living” (Cool Springs Press, 2025), author Bailey Van Tassel invokes an easily memorized rhyme concerning crop rotation in the vegetable garden: “beans, roots, greens, fruits.” The ...

Crop rotation is the practice of planting different crops sequentially on the same plot to improve soil health, optimize nutrients in the soil and fight pests and weeds. We’ll get to that, but first, ...

If you’ve ever planted the same vegetable in the same spot every year and noticed your harvest getting smaller, you’re not alone. That’s where crop rotation comes in. It’s a simple method of switching ...

Right now, it seems like vegetable garden season will go on forever. But we know that eventually the cold weather will show up and put an end to our garden. Since we know it’s going to happen, let’s ...

“Succession” is best defined as a sequence of events happening one after another. In the practice of gardening, this means a technique where new crops are planted regularly to maintain a continuous ...