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Re: rotate


At 11:06 AM 1/22/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Is it really necessary to rotate crops after just one season. 

I don't know that much about diseases, but I know that certain pests lay
eggs in the soil by the plants they like, and the eggs hatch into
destructive larvae the following year.  If you rotate the plants, the
larvae hatch next to plants they find unpalatable.


Sheila Smith
mikecook@pipeline.com
Z 5/6



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