6. A Healthy Growing Area | 15 mins

One of the great joys of growing comes from watching your space flourish and seeing your hard work repaid in bountiful harvests year after year. Maintaining a clean and healthy space works hand in hand with the other principles, over time you will find the methods that best suit you and your particular space, learning and adapting along the way.

• Cleaning tools and washing hands minimise the spread of pests and diseases
• Familiarity with your plants and growing space will help you adapt your methods to best effect
• Maintaining a healthy space is key to a 'prevention rather than treatment' organic approach

Reflect:
Can you improve the health of your growing space by using or moving towards one of the practices suggested in this section?

Complete the following quiz to check your knowledge of this principle before moving onto the final page of this module:

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