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Vegetable Crop Rotation
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Asteraceae (Lettuce Family)
Rotating with Fabaceae or Solanaceae. Benefits: can help reduce soil pathogens and insects that particularly affect lettuce crops.
Apiaceae (Carrot Family)
Rotating with Solanaceae or Cucurbitaceae. Benefits: disrupts the life cycle of carrot-specific diseases and pests, such as carrot fly.
Cucurbitaceae (Gourd Vegetables)
Rotating with Alliaceae or Fabaceae. Benefits: helps prevent buildup of pests like squash vine borers, reduces disease risks.
Solanaceae (Nightshade Vegetables)
Rotating with Gramineae or Leguminosae. Benefits: reduces risk of pest and disease accumulation, particularly blights and wilts.
Amaranthaceae (Beet Family)
Rotating with Brassicaceae or Cucurbitaceae. Benefits: reduces risk of soil-borne diseases specific to beets such as leaf spot and root rots.
Poaceae (Corn Family)
Rotating with Fabaceae or Solanaceae. Benefits: breaks disease and pest cycles affecting corn, improves soil structure and fertility for subsequent crops.
Fabaceae (Legume Vegetables)
Rotating with Poaceae or Brassicaceae. Benefits: fixes nitrogen into the soil, acts as a green manure improving soil health.
Brassicaceae (Cruciferous Vegetables)
Rotating with Solanaceae or Cucurbitaceae. Benefits: break the cycle of soil-borne pests and diseases such as clubroot, and help in managing nutrients.
Alliaceae (Onion Vegetables)
Rotating with Brassicaceae or Asteraceae. Benefits: helps control soil-borne diseases, such as onion white rot, and can deter certain pests.
Chenopodiaceae (Spinach Family)
Rotating with Fabaceae or Brassicaceae. Benefits: helps in managing soil salinity and minimizing spinach pests and diseases.
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