You're listening to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net,

and my goal is to give beginning garden hear the phrase crop rotation?

Maybe it's something you think you have a basic understanding of, but when it comes to actually

putting it into place in your garden, you come up with more questions than answers.

Maybe you wonder, is it even necessary to rotate my crops from year to year, especially if I

grow in a small space? Do all crops need rotation? Maybe you've heard about

rotating plant families, but what does that even mean? If your knowledge of plant families is

limited to your eighth grade's earth science class, raising my hand here, how are you supposed to

know which plants are in which families?

And side note, did you know that there are 11 plant families?

I had no idea until I started to look it up.

And then what if your garden consists of more than one plant family than another?

I know mine does.

I have way more tomatoes and corn and things like that than I do some of the other families. And what about companion planting and succession planting? How does all that fit into

crop rotation? I have to be honest that at this point I usually throw my hands in the air,

wondering how I will ever figure out this

impossible 3D puzzle. If you've ever wondered about any of these things, stick around because

we'll talk all about crop rotation at a non-PHD agricultural level. By the end of this episode, I hope that I

will have simplified crop rotation for you as the

home gardener.

But before we dive in, I want to let you know about something coming up that I am really

pumped about.

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