← The vegetable garden
H10-05 · Module 5 of 7 · Pages: 20 · Worksheets: 5
Garden care: watering, hoeing, mulching
How much water, when and how, how to keep weeds in check, what to mulch with and how to take tomatoes, cucumbers and the rest through the summer
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In short
- In high summer a garden needs roughly 20–30 litres per m² a week, rain included (1 mm of rain = 1 L/m²).
- Water seldom and deeply, early in the morning, at the roots and not over the leaves.
- Hoe and weed while the weeds are small: one hoeing saves moisture like one watering.
- A mulch 5–10 cm (2–4 in) deep saves a third of the water and most of the weeding; put it down once the soil has warmed.
- The most damage comes from uneven watering and skipped weeks, not from one dry week.
What's inside
Chapters
- How plants drink
- How much and when to water
- Critical stages by crop
- Ways of watering
- Hoeing and weeding
- Mulching
- Feeding through the season
- Staking, tying and pinching out
- Heat, drought, hail and storms
- Routine: fifteen minutes a day
- Common mistakes
- Printable checklist
Worksheets
- Garden care calendar
- Water calculator
- Mulch calculator
- Rain and watering log
- Weekly list
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