Abundant Harvests: Crop Rotation Wheel

Our Vegetable Crop Rotation Wheel can help you attain

abundant harvests

in the year-round growing season of Southern California.

You've heard that farmers "rotate their crops." Now you can do it too, in your urban garden. Our simple tool shows you how.

Crop rotation can be rather complicated to figure out. We know -- it took us several years of puzzling. Try to factor in companion planting. Add to that the complexities of our year-round growing season. And the need to be constantly building your soil. (Whew! It's getting very involved!)

The Vegetable Crop Rotation Wheel makes it simple: just pick crops from the list on the back of the wheel. The wheel tells you where and when to plant them!

4-year rotation
year-round growing -- cool season and warm season plants
abundant harvests in every season
easy to use-- design refined in four years of public garden classes
crop rotations tested in the Community Garden at Holy Nativity, Los Angeles 90045

Our system of crop rotation uses four plant guilds, which include most common vegetable plants. Each season includes "stars of the garden" -- vegetables in prime production and peak harvest. You won't have any down-time and you'll be building your soil too!

There are several reasons for rotating crops including (1) building soil fertility using nitrogen-fixing plants, and (2) breaking the cycle of pests and diseases. With our Vegetable Crop Rotation Wheel your garden will gain the benefits of both, and you the gardener will gain an easy planting system!

Buy our Vegetable Crop Rotation Wheel on Etsy http://www.etsy.com/shop/EnviroChangeMakers

About the author

Joanne Poyourow has grown food in Southern California urban spaces for nearly three decades. She teaches organic vegetable gardening classes in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles.

She is the designer of the well-known Community Garden at Holy Nativity, and was the concept designer for the new Emerson Avenue Community Garden, both in Los Angeles.

Joanne is deeply involved in the Transition movement. She is widely-regarded as the initiator who brought the ideas of the international movement to Los Angeles. She is the co-founder of the Environmental Change-Makers in Westchester, and is active in coordinating the activities of the Transition Los Angeles city hub.

You can find Joanne's blog here. She has written a booklet on "Economic Resilience." She is also the author of two books: Environmental Change-Making and the future-envisioning novel Legacy.

Read more about Joanne here.

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