6. Looking after
your vegetable garden
6.1 How to care for your garden
How to care for your vegetable garden:
Watering
• Water carefully, ideally close to the ground.
It is important to keep the bed moist. You can
punch holes in a plastic bottle to provide a
fine spray. Watering in the middle of the day
can damage the plants.
Weeding
• You will need to keep your vegetable
garden free of weeds, which will compete
with the vegetables for light and nutrients.
Pick out weeds by hand, don’t use chemicals.
Hoeing
• This involves moving the soil between the
plants to aerate the soil, remove weeds and
improve drainage. You should hoe regularly,
being careful not to damage the roots.
Use a small rake or garden fork.
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