Horticulture can be fully practiced on a small land and the best practices being fully implemented. For health reasons all these can be grown within a year with very good crops being grown. Let me group the vegetables as follows: Group 1 Leaf vegetables (covo, rape, spinach, tsunga, amaranthus and lettuce), plus cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and lettuce. Group 2 Root vegetables (carrots, onions, garlic, leeks, and beetroot) Group 3 Fruit vegetables (tomatoes, eggplant, green peppers, pumpkins, cucumber, squash, okra and melons) and potatoes. Group 4 Legumes (green beans and peas) Crop Rotation When growing horticultural crops it is important not to plant the same crop in the same beds time after time as this will cause soil fertility depletion and pest and disease build-up. A good crop rotation for horticultural crops is: Group 1 followed by Group 2 followed by Group 3 followed by Group 4 . Timing of Planting Climatic conditions are a major determinant
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