The Benefits of Effective Vegetable Cultivation in your Garden
The most effective vegetable cultivation brings about main two benefits:
- The elimination or reduction of weeds
- The stimulation of plant growth by
a.
letting air into the soil and freeing unavailable plant food
b. by conserving moisture
Successful gardeners need to keep their crops clean. Don’t let anything resembling a start to weeds get up. After they are well up, followed perhaps by a day or so of rain, you may easily double the work of cleaning a patch of onions or carrots. Large weed removal can injure new seedlings and every day's growth of weeds means that much available plant food is stolen from under the very roots of your legitimate crops.
To avoid allowing weeds to escape with any plant food, the best gardeners cultivate their crops by breaking the soil up to let in air, moisture and heat all - essential in causing those chemical changes necessary to convert non- available into available plant food.
Soil cultivators have known of the necessity of keeping the soil nicely loosened about their growing crops. Plants need to breathe. Their roots need air. The dark green of healthy plant life never appears in a suffocated garden.
Just as important an ingredient as air in regular vegetable cultivation, is water. Water stored in the soil after a rain begins to escape again into the atmosphere immediately. Water on the surface evaporates first, and that which has soaked in begins to soak in through the soil to the surface. Frequent cultivation of the surface soil about one or two inches deep for most small vegetables the soil prevents water evaporation and a mulch of dust is maintained.
Try to get over every part of your garden, especially where it is not shaded, once in every ten days or two weeks. Does that seem like too much work? You can push your wheel hoe through, and keep the dust mulch as a constant protection, as fast as you can walk.
If you’d like to read more about the benefits of effective vegetable cultivation, read ‘How to Reduce Weeding in Your Vegetable Cultivation’ on my blog at www.blog.mightydigitaldownloads.com
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