← 1.4 Field Management Practices
Thinning, gap filling and mulching
Agriculture · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
Leaving the strongest seedlings at the right spacing, replanting empty hills while they can still catch up, and covering the soil with residue to hold moisture and suppress weeds.
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Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Field management and pruning
- Top dressing and other field management practices
- Weeding a growing Kenyan crop
- Thinning, gap filling and mulching
- Pruning tomatoes on Kenyan farms
- Pruning capsicum and related vegetables
- Single-stem and multiple-stem pruning of coffee and tea
- Cutting back perennial crops
- Top dressing maize and vegetables in practice
- Staking, training and earthing up