Vegetable Tending
Here are tips that we use when Vegetable Tending?
- Location (Most vegetables need full sun to grow well, but some like salad leaves and herbs, do better in partial shade)
- Soil (Prepare the soil by removing weeds and adding compost or manure. Well-rotted compost can improve any soil type, and you can add a layer of 5–15 cm each year)
- Watering (Water seeds regularly, and water once a week after they germinate, providing about 1 inch of water)
- Thinning (Thin plants out that were planted too close together within two weeks of planting)
- Weeding (Keep the area free of weeds)
- Spacing (Follow the space guidance on the seed packet)
- Protection (Use physical barriers to deter slugs and snails)
- Harvesting (Plant new rows of root seeds successively to ensure a continuous harvest)
- Tracking (Keep record sheets of seed starts to track the date something was seeded, when it emerged, and when it was transplanted)