Crop rotation for balcony vegetable growing

Ah... The most troublesome thing about growing vegetables on a balcony is pests and diseases, fellow balcony gardeners, don't you agree?

Spraying pesticides is out of the question - this is your home, your home's balcony.

Using food-based control methods, the results are so slow you'll doubt life itself.

These hateful pests and diseases, what can chase you away?

When you've tried every method and still see little effect, you might as well bring out the ultimate move for preventing and controlling balcony pests and diseases:Crop rotation!

So-called crop rotation means planting different types of vegetables in a planned sequence on the same piece of land.

Generally speaking, growing the same vegetable on the same piece of land for a long time will cause reduced yields.

One: Different plants each have pests and diseases that correspond to them

After a vegetable is grown on a piece of land, the soil of that land will retain the disease bacteria and insect eggs corresponding to that vegetable.

If the same vegetable is still grown on this land, it is no different from deliberately killing these vegetables.

But the pests and diseases corresponding to this vegetable may not pose a threat to another vegetable, and may even be kept in check by it.

Yes, this way the harmful substances in the soil can be effectively reduced.

Two: Different plants require different nutrients

In other words, growing the same vegetable on the same piece of land for a long time will lead to an imbalance in the soil's nutrients, causing the nutrients needed by that vegetable to become fewer and fewer and unable to be fully supplied.

And the nutrients in that soil that have not yet been absorbed are very likely the favorite of another vegetable.

Wow, finding such matching combinations for crop rotation plants is truly a matter of getting twice the result with half the effort!

So, considering all aspects, crop rotation is our only choice for growing on the balcony.

However, not just any vegetables can be rotated with each other.

For example: eggplant, tomato, and chili pepper are not suitable together;

For example: Chinese cabbage, rapeseed, radish, and other cruciferous vegetables are not suitable together;

For example: scallion, Chinese chives, garlic, and so on are also not suitable together.

The reason is simple: they are close relatives, very similar in genetic makeup and growing environment. Even with rotation, there won't be much effect.

Are fellow balcony gardeners anxiously asking which vegetables to choose for rotation?

The head gardener has organized it and compiled it into a chart,

Fellow gardeners who like it, hurry up and save it, hurry up and try it!

Uh, no rush, no rush. The head gardener will ramble a couple of lines to remind fellow balcony gardeners that balcony crop planting is related to the growing environment, and exactly how to rotate crops more suitably still requires your own trials to summarize the experience.

Year after year after year, grow on the balcony!

Vegetable classification, four-year rotation

Grow on the balcony

Alright, that's all for today. If fellow balcony gardeners still have any questions they hope the head gardener will answer, leave a message in the comment section below.

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Growing on the balcony, learning never ends.