Vegetable Cultivation

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This is all about vegetable cultivation and the science that is proven and the benefits of cultivation.

 

The reason for the cultivation of a garden is for mostly three reasons that are beneficial. These consist of stimulating growth and getting rid of weeds.

 

It allows stimulation of growth by conserving moisture, letting air into the soil plus freeing unavailable plant food.

 

Keeping your crops free from weeds is an important factor has any gardener would know. Gardeners have learned this over past experiences over the years.

 

It can be costly and labour intense just by letting the garden go to weeds. With a day or two of rain just letting the weeds go, they can double in size and make the workload very intense as well.

 

Cleaning a patch of onions or carrots, and that where weeds have attained any size they cannot be taken out of sowed crops without doing a great deal of injury.

 

Every day of weed growth the plant food is stolen from the crops that we want to harvest. Pulling weeds will frequently allow more plant food for the crops we grow.

 

It will break up the soil to allow more air, moisture, and heat which are important for chemical change in the soil. Gardeners have learned to keep the soil loosely around the growing crops.

 

By this, there is always a much healthier and bountiful harvest by keeping up with the weeds and loosening the soil.  Plants need to breathe and their roots also need the air to be healthy plants.

 

Water is just as important as air and it ranks right there beside it. You may not see at first what the matter of frequent cultivation has to do with water. But let us stop a moment and investigate it.

 

Take a strip of blotting paper, dip one end in water, and watch the moisture run uphill, and soak up through the blotter.

There is another thing to be considered in making each vegetable do its best, and that is crop rotation or the following of any vegetable with a different sort at the next planting.

 

With some vegetables, such as cabbage, this is almost imperative, and practically all are helped by it.

Even onions, which are popularly supposed to be the proven exception to the rule, are healthier and do as well as some other crops, provided the soil is as finely pulverized and rich as a previous crop of onions would leave it.

 

Cultivate And Happy Gardening!!!