DEAR AMOR : If I have strawberries in a raised bed, do I need to move them to a new bed next spring to rotate crops and replenish the soil? Crop rotation is a big mystery to me. â Tara DEAR TARA: Crop rotation in home gardens involves classifications of our favorite garden fruits and vegetables into plant families. Once we identify these plant family groups, it will then be easy for us to plan new locations per plant families for crop rotation purposes. Most often our garden beds would include potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants and peppers. We might think that since we had tomatoes last year in a particular spot, then this year we can plant peppers for that same spot.