Cultural practices of vegetable crop production These are practices that are carried out after planting vegetable crops on the field up to the time of harvesting. They include the following: 1. Mulching 2. Thinning out 3. Pruning 4. Stirring 5. Weeding 6. Fertilizer application 7. Earthing-up 8. Pest control 9. Disease control 10. Harvesting 11. Storage 12. Marketing