Keep veggies moving

Before you get too stir crazy with your seeds and plants, it is good gardening advice to take some time out to make a plan as to where you are going to grow things, or, to use ominous garden speak, devise a crop rotation.

Crop rotation has been traditionally used in agriculture to cleanse, protect and replenish soil and is at the heart of organic gardening.

While it might sound somewhat old-fashioned, it is actually a far more effective and sophisticated system than relying on chemicals for pest and disease management and fertility. It is simply a systematic approach to deciding which crop to plant where in your plot from one season to the next.