Vegetable soil cultivation

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Vegetable Soil Cultivation

Without timely and diligent cultivation a garden will either be a partial or total failure. To yield good crops, the plants must be given every possible chance to develop quickly and make as strong and healthy a growth as season and soil fertility permit.

To attain this end cultivation is necessary not only between and alongside of the rows, but also between the plants in the row. Cultivation keeps down the weeds, gives the air access into the soil, and conserves the moisture, by formation of a dust mulch.

Eliminating weeds puts every bit of fertility at the disposal of the cultivated crop. By giving the air a chance to circulate through the soil, the soil is kept alive and sweet. The closing of cracks in drying soil preserves the moisture underneath. Heavy clay soils need more cultivation than soils of sandy nature. Any act that accomplishes any or all of above three important garden needs is classed as cultivation, regardless of tools used.

see Vegetable garden