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Good Gardening Practices for Urban Soils

  • Wear gloves while gardening
  • Wash and scrub vegetables before eating or cooking
  • Change gardening shoes before entering home so as not to track excessive dirt indoors
  • Don’t let children eat soil
  • Till soil only to a depth of 6” - 8”
  • Avoid deep digging or double digging
  • Use mulch to lessen splashing of soil onto plants
  • Do not use railroad ties or pressure treated (CCA) wood as plot dividers

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