What are going on everyone? So today, what are we talking about with Ryan? The personal

gardener of Martha Stewart. We're talking about crop rotation. What do we need to

know and why is it important and then how does he approach it at Martha's Garden

and what can we learn from that to approach it in a good way in our own home gardens.

So he has actually a multi-year schedule although that's because he's got years of experience on the property

and he knows exactly how to manage that property well.

So we're going to break that down as well as what we can do in our own home gardens

when it comes to crop rotation.

Gotcha.

Okay, well, let's talk about that then.

The crop rotation, I've gotten a few questions lately about that,

just from different readers, I think on maybe Instagram or email and so how do you approach you said

four quarter grid yeah the the look like in practice well the vegetable garden it

I've moved it a couple years after I started here I moved it down and then I've added

to it over the year so so the original four-quarter grid has kind of been expanded upon

so there's a fenced- area. All the veggie garden area in total is probably a good

acre or so, which is kind of a lot of food. That's a lot of food. So yeah, so I kind of divide the big area up into into four quadrants and I I generally try to keep a

plant family in each quadrant. I put like with white like there's a few exceptions so like all the

tomatoes peppers eggplants they're all nightshade family so I keep all of them together

because they have similar growing likes.

They're prone to similar diseases, so it's just easy to do that.

A few exceptions are potatoes, for example, that's also in that family,

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