Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Carrie Shepard <carrieshepard@yahoo.com>]

Can someone explain this to me?:

 

from p. 53 "Rotations affect weed control in a similar way.  The characteristics of a crop and the cultivation methods used to grow it may inadvertently allow certain weeds to find a favorable niche.  A smart crop rotation will incorporate a successor crop that eradicates those weeds.  Furthermore, some crops can work as  "cleaning crops" because of the style of cultivation used on them.  Potatoes and winter squash fit into this category because of the hilling practiced on the former and the long period of cultivation that is possible prior to vining for the latter."

 

I think I understnad the potatoes as I have grown them for several seasons, but I don't understand what he's talking about on the winter squash?   When I've grown pumpkins and hubbard squash, they vines went everywhere and they just sort of took up a lot of space that I stayed away from until I harvested the squash.  I'm assuming from this writing that there is another/better way to handle all the foliage? and space around the crops?

 

Carrie

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