Organic Gardening Tips For Raised Beds
Raised bed gardening is one of the best ways to get healthy, high-quality vegetables with less work and space than traditional row gardening.
Regulating nitrogen in vegetable crops Farmers have long been advised to use standard fertiliser mixtures for crops as a matter of course.
5 Garlic Growing Tips You Don’t Want to Miss Garlic is a good choice for organic gardens throughout North America. Like onions, garlic is a cool weather crop; it requires cold in order for the bulb
Selecting the right nitrogen fertiliser When it comes to vegetables, choosing the right nitrogen fertiliser is extremely important. For many US agronomists, ammonium sulphate is the fertiliser
How to Grow Japanese Yew Shrubs Although Japanese yews are technically classified as conifers, they don’t produce cones, but female specimens bear red berries.
The relationship between nitrogen & organic matter Vegetable growers frequently ignore the relationship between nitrogen and organic matter when deciding on the amount of nitrogen to apply to a crop
10 Organic Pest Control Methods If your vegetable garden is overrun with pests, the first step is to identify the invader. Snap a photo of the pest and compare to others on the internet
How to handle fresh produce Instilling the importance of careful handling of fruit and vegetables is not as simple as it might seem.
Growing Beans in the Home Garden Beans, which belong to the legume family, are some of the most popular vegetables grown in the home garden. In fact, beans are right behind tomatoes in populari
More about nitrogen The inability of soil microbes to convert ammonium to nitrate at a soil temperature below 10°C has caused reduced yields in winter without farmers understanding
Guide to Growing Cherokee Purple Tomatoes One of the most popular of the non-traditional heirloom varieties of tomato, the Cherokee Purple grows to both great height and gives fruit of large size.
Understanding nitrogen The effect of nitrate leaching. The area close to the sprinkler receives more water and the nitrogen leaches out.
Growing baby carrots Almost everything that applies to growing ‘normal’ carrots falls away when you plant for the baby carrot market.
Positive growth for potato industry The area is well-known for its citrus and potatoes, which seem to occupy all of the limited, open flat spaces available.
Marketing and presentation of your carrot crop As with most commodities, presentation of the product has a disproportionate influence on the price received.
Other carrot leaf diseases This week, I want to look at three other diseases that are very similar, but may need different products to keep in check. These are Cercospora, bacterial leaf
Know your leaf blight pathogens When it comes to leaf blight, there are three species of Alternaria that carrot growers have to watch out for: A dauci, A radicina and A alternata.
Other carrot problems Carrots are not attacked by many pests, apart from eelworm. Nonetheless, there are a few pests that can prove a problem.
Carrot root diseases Your carrot crop is looking good. You can almost hear the money cascading into your bank account. Then you harvest it – and all that profit vanishes.
Eelworms love carrots By far the biggest carrot pest is the root knot eelworm (Melodogyne spp). In many other vegetable crops, these nematodes are not much of a problem