Select what you grew last season and get instant recommendations for this year — organised by plant family to break pest cycles and replenish soil nutrients.
Select every plant family you grew in a bed or plot during the previous season.
We identify which families to avoid and which to prioritise for each position.
Follow a 3–4 year cycle to break disease cycles and build soil fertility naturally.
Crop rotation is the practice of growing different plant families in the same soil each year, rather than planting the same crops in the same spot season after season.
Repeating the same family in the same bed allows soil-borne diseases like clubroot (brassicas) and blight (nightshades) to build up to damaging levels. Rotating breaks this cycle by removing the host plants those pathogens depend on.
Different plant families also have different nutrient demands. Legumes fix atmospheric nitrogen into the soil, making them an ideal predecessor for hungry crops like brassicas.
A simple 4-year rotation — Legumes → Brassicas → Roots → Nightshades — is the foundation most kitchen gardeners use, and what this planner is based on.
Fix nitrogen into the soil. Grow first in the rotation.
Includes: Pea, Broad Bean, French Bean, Runner Bean, Clover
Benefit from the nitrogen left by legumes. Never follow themselves.
Includes: Cabbage, Broccoli, Kale, Cauliflower, Brussels Sprout, Turnip
Prefer lower-nitrogen soil; good after brassicas.
Includes: Carrot, Parsnip, Beetroot, Onion, Garlic, Leek
Heavy feeders. Benefit from composted beds.
Includes: Tomato, Pepper, Potato, Cucumber, Courgette, Squash
A minimum of 3 years is recommended — ideally 4. This gives enough time for soil pathogens specific to each family to decline in the absence of a host.
Yes, and it is often easier to manage in raised beds because each bed can represent one rotation group. Label your beds and rotate all groups one position clockwise each spring.
Even rotating within a bed helps. Split the bed in half and swap the halves each year. Any distance helps — the goal is simply to avoid growing the same family in the same soil two years in a row.
Most culinary herbs (basil, parsley, dill) benefit from rotation. Perennial herbs like rosemary, thyme and sage stay in place. Mint should always be in a container.
Yes — green manures like clover, mustard or phacelia fit naturally into a rotation. Leguminous green manures (clover, vetch) count as part of the legume group.
Plan every part of your kitchen garden — all free.
Crop rotation only works if you remember what was in each bed. The app tracks your bed history automatically, so it can always recommend the right family for the right spot.
Garden beds tracker
Log every bed with its crop family history — never forget what grew where
Bed history insights
See year-on-year performance per bed and the best rotation sequences (Pro)
Smart seasonal suggestions
App auto-recommends the ideal crop for each bed based on what grew there (Pro)
Planting calendar
Full zone-based sow, transplant and harvest dates for your rotated crops
Task reminders
Get notified when it's time to prepare beds, sow or transplant
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