Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/910/en

The art of arable and garden cultivation consists in compensating for the lack of species diversity, or even in raising it artistically to a higher level than the naturally given one. Crop rotation means: the sum of food, fodder, and other plants serving general use are grown each year separately from one another, distributed across individual field plots and garden parcels. The same crops follow one another on each of these areas according to certain criteria over the years. In this way all field crops move in lawful sequence through the farm precincts. The balancing effect of crop rotation can be substantially enhanced by mixed or companion sowing — oats with beans or peas, for instance — by undersowing with red, white, or Swedish clover, by the intercalation of cover crops, and by the multiplication of cultivation in accordance with the needs of a regional market.