how to rotate plants in a small garden

I have a small garden, just a few raised beds. But I usually plant about 20 to 25 tomato bushes, plus green beans, cucumbers, yellow squash, zucchini. I can't figure out how to rotate them every year, if I have tomatoes in nearly every bed. The cucumbers only grow well in one place, etc. Is there any answer other than to build more beds?

I've had the same problem. Couple of hints.
1. Even in a raised bed, you can rotate. Year 1, tomatoes on left side; year 2, tomatoes on right side.
2. Use lots of compost & mulch.
3. Plant something else there in the off season. My favorite when tomatoes are finished is field peas. Plant cole crops over the winter.

I'm sure others can come up with some more ideas.

Why do cukes only grow well in one place?
Make the other places more like this place.

Since you grow so many tomatoes, it seems you are going to have a lot of tomatoes in your rotation.

How about dividing your available space into 3:

First year
Section 1:Tomatoes
Section 2: Everything Else
Section 3: Fallow (solarize) in July, grow cool season crops early (harvest before July) and late (right after solarizing)

Second year:
Section 1: Everything else
Section 2: Solarize
Section 3: Tomatoes

Third year:
Section 1: Solarize
Section 2: Tomatoes
Section 3: Everything else

When a bed is just getting started with small tomatoes you can get a faster crop like lettuce, radish and many other (small) things in and out.

Diana_K,

Thanks for that rotation tip!

I'll be setting tomato seedlings in mid-February, and hadn't thought about using the available space to get lettuce and other (small) things in and out!

Great suggestions!
Turns out, one of the raised beds is apparently built over the leaky septic system. It's naturally fertilized! That's where the cucumbers grow best. Unfortunately, I can't replicate that situation under all of the beds, other than to apply lots of nitrogen.

I have several raised beds and have rotated similar to the suggestion. One difference is that I completely chang beds with the tomatoes. I don't think swapping from one side of the bed to other will get the results you want. Moving my plants to a totally different bed has kept me from having carry over problems. The only thing I plant in the same place every year are beans. I have two beds that are 40 ft. long and I keep a permanent wire up. Id do swap the green beans and butter beans out on them. If you don't cage everything, try that. You can plant a little closer together. I make my own cages out of concrete rienforcement wire. Tomatoes, cukes and yellow squash do good caged, for some reason zuccini doesn't like a cage.