How to keep your plants healthy and with less disease and pests, fewer weeds underneath, and under cover you can improve ventilation with this approach. It applies also to vegetables such as celery, celeriac, dwarf French beans, beetroot, kale and radicchio, to name a few.

A further benefit is that you the gardener, become more of a gardener. You stay close to and regularly involved with your plants. This maintains a strong connection to, and understanding of what they need at any time.

00:00 Reason for covering cabbage plants
00:44 Removing lower leaves – why and how
02:30 What make a good gardener?
03:05 More on removing lower leaves, of brassicas, and how it affects moisture needed
04:07 Removing leaves from lettuce and endive, both for harvest and keeping plants tidy
05:24 How many leaves can you remove, and why
06:10 Removing weeds in the process
06:32 Picking endive leaves, and I explain tip burn
08:45 Netting against rabbits
08:57 Removing lower leaves from plants under cover – tomatoes, cucumbers and melons in the polytunnel
09:43 Looking after tomato plants, including removing the truss as well as leaves
11:18 Cucumbers – which leaves to remove
12:47 De-leafing melon plants, and some info on powdery mildew
14:10 Two ways of knowing when a melon is ripe
14:39 Mildew on courgette and summer squash, and the importance of keeping plants tidy
15:36 Quick recap on the benefits of removing lower leaves

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