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(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns Imao

  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alEnglish
    392·
    5 months ago

    Wasn’t this posted the other day or am I losing my mind?

    Also, don’t you have to rotate where you plant the crops moreso than what they are?

    • ShunkW@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      5 months ago

      Iirc, and I could be getting this wrong, but different crops take and return different nutrients to the soil. So rotating where they’re planted can help prevent depletion of the soil, while you can still use all the land available each season.

      • caseyweederman@lemmy.caEnglish
        33·
        5 months ago

        Don’t forget about fallow crops, when you let the earth rest and the crops to decompose, enriching the soil

        • ShunkW@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          5 months ago

          Yeah that’s a big part as well. Also fallow is such a great word and I rediscovered it when I found an artist named Emma Ruth Rundle who uses it beautifully in at least a couple songs.

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      421·
      5 months ago

      SabreW4K3 thinks the memes have to take turns lmao

    • chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      162·
      5 months ago

      No: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_rotation

      You keep them where they are. Benefits are:

      Agronomists describe the benefits to yield in rotated crops as “The Rotation Effect”. There are many benefits of rotation systems. The factors related to the increase are broadly due to alleviation of the negative factors of monoculture cropping systems. Specifically, improved nutrition; pest, pathogen, and weed stress reduction; and improved soil structure have been found in some cases to be correlated to beneficial rotation effects.

      Other benefits include reduced production cost. Overall financial risks are more widely distributed over more diverse production of crops and/or livestock. Less reliance is placed on purchased inputs and over time crops can maintain production goals with fewer inputs. This in tandem with greater short and long term yields makes rotation a powerful tool for improving agricultural systems.

    • shani66@ani.socialEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      Eventually, yes, but it’s primarily about what nutrients are in the soil. You can grow tomatoes after potatoes* but that doesn’t add any of the nutrients potatoes need back into the soil.

      • I don’t actually know the nutritional needs of either of those crops
      • Revan343@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        I don’t actually know the nutritional needs of either of those crops

        Good pair to choose if you’re just guessing though; both being nightshades, their nutrient requirements will be similar. I’m not sure if potatoes need extra calcium like tomatoes though, I would guess not as that’s for the sake of the fruit