Plant Health
Many diseases of plants can be kept at bay with good cultural practices. Keeping plants healthy actually begins with choosing the right plants for your location. It also includes proper watering and nutrition and cleaning of plant material and the surrounding areas. When choosing plants for your garden, what type of lighting conditions prevail where you are planting? Is it shady all day or is it sunny? Perhaps the area only gets sun in the morning or afternoon for part of the day. This affects not only the types of plants that will perform well in those conditions, but also how much watering you’ll need to do during the season. If the area remains wet all the time, it will predispose the plants and soil to disease. So for a shady garden, you will not need to water as frequently as you would for a sunny location. It is also important to water in the morning, or at least well enough in advance so that the plants are not wet at nigh...