How to use this list
When planting vegetable crops from year to year, season to season, AND planting to planting, crop rotation is an excellent practice to incorporate in your garden. Rotating by crop families helps keep the soil more nutritionally balanced and can help prevent garden pests. Different crop families use different nutrients out of the soil, and attract different pests, so when replanting a bed, do it with a plant from another crop family. When one crop is done yielding, say garlic in mid-summer, replant it with another crop, like fall broccoli or cabbage from the Brassicaceae family. Ideally, wait until crops from 3 other groups have been successively planted before replanting that first crop again. Add soil amendments such as compost/well rotted manure before re- planting a bed.
Vegetable Crops, by families
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GROUP 1
Apiaceae Carrot Celery Celeria Parsley Parsnip Chenopodiaceae Beet Orach Spinach Swiss Chard Leaf Beet Lambs Quarters GROUP 2 Asteraceae Artichoke Chicory Dandelion Endive Escarole Lettuce Radicchio Sunflowers Portulacaceae Claytonia Purslane GROUP 3 Cucurbitaceae Cucumber Melon Pumpkin Squash, summer Squash, winter GROUP 4 Fabaceae Bean Pea |
GROUP 5
Brassicaceae Arugula Broccoli Brussels Sprouts Cabbage Cabbage, Chinese Cress Kale Kohlrabi Mizuna Mustard Radish Rutabaga Tatsoi Turnip Watercress GROUP 6 Liliaceae Asparagus Garlic Leek Onion GROUP 7 Poaceae Corn GROUP 8 Solanaceae Eggplant Pepper Potato Tomato |
Fruit Crops
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Berries:
Blackberry Blueberry Boysenberry Cranberry Currant Gooseberry Grape Loganberry Raspberry Strawberry |
Fruit Trees:
Apple Apricot Asian Pear Cherry Nectarine Peach Pear Plum Orange Lemon Lime Avocado Mango |
Herbs:
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Angelica
Anise Hyssop Borage Bergamot Catmint Catnip Basil- many varieties Calendula Chervil Chamomile Chives Garlic Chives Cilantro/Coriander Cumin Dill Dandelion Echinacea Feverfew Leaf Fennel Flax Goldenseal |
Ginseng
Hyssop Lavender Lemon Balm Lovage Mint Marjoram Nettle Oregano Parsley Rosemary Sage Savory Shiso Thyme Valerian |