Managing Soil Fertility
18 | Unit 1.1
Instructor’s Lecture 2 Outline
- Rotation considerations
a) Try to avoid rotation of crop species that share similar pests and diseases.
Intersperse with different crops to break pest and disease cycles.
i. Example: Solanaceae rotation
b) Rotation of crops to maximize use of nutrient inputs and distribute nutrient demand
placed on the soil
i. Examples of multi-year crop rotations (see Coleman 1995)
c) Fallow periods and perennial cover crop rotations