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Originally Posted by Starless
I rotate my crops every year. Right now my tomatoes are right next to oregano, basil, rosemary, parsley, sage, lavender, and thyme. No, this is not a Simon and Garfunkel song.
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I definitely rotate my planting locations every year. Fortunately we haven't had much trouble with bugs out here and the annual rotations have kept the verticilium and fusarium at bay. I have spent 7 years building up the garden soil with compost, sand, and planting legumes, so I don't use any chemical fertilizers. This year I started planting the tomatoes in rows 6 1/2 feet apart so I can weed them with my tiller.
This has been a terrible year weather wise. Corn and green bean seed rotted in the ground because it was so cold and wet right up until last week. Now it's been in the 90s for four days.
This is the last year for this garden for me. We are moving and I may give up gardening. It is a LOT of work to develop a good plot of land and I don't think I have it in me to start over.
