8 Fall Veggies You Should Never Plant in the Same Place (You Might Ruin Your Harvest)

No matter how small your vegetable garden is—raised beds or otherwise—it’s crucial to not the same veggies in the same spot every year. Farmers and home gardeners use this practice, called crop rotation, for two main reasons.

Planting the same veggies in the same soil year after year gives pests and diseases an easy host to attack; rotating the crops breaks that cycle because you take away the breeding ground or food source.

Also, the nutrients that each veggie takes out of the soil are different, both in terms of the type of nutrient and the amount. Planting the same crop in the same location year after year depletes the soil nutrients and causes a nutrient imbalance, which then leads to poor harvests.

Rotating crops, on the other hand, allows the soil to replenish. Here are eight fall veggies you should always plant in a new spot every year.

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