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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