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.

12/01/2019
Regulating nitrogen in vegetable crops Regulating nitrogen in vegetable crops

Farmers have long been advised to use standard fertiliser mixtures for crops as a matter of course.

11/01/2019
5 Garlic Growing Tips You Don’t Want to Miss 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

10/01/2019
Selecting the right nitrogen fertiliser 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

10/01/2019
How to Grow Japanese Yew Shrubs 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.

08/01/2019
The relationship between nitrogen & organic matter 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

07/01/2019
10 Organic Pest Control Methods 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

05/01/2019
How to handle fresh produce How to handle fresh produce

Instilling the importance of careful handling of fruit and vegetables is not as simple as it might seem.

05/01/2019
Growing Beans in the Home Garden 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

03/01/2019
More about nitrogen 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

03/01/2019
Guide to Growing Cherokee Purple Tomatoes 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.

28/12/2018
Understanding nitrogen Understanding nitrogen

The effect of nitrate leaching. The area close to the sprinkler receives more water and the nitrogen leaches out.

28/12/2018
Growing baby carrots Growing baby carrots

Almost everything that applies to growing ‘normal’ carrots falls away when you plant for the baby carrot market.

27/12/2018
Positive growth for potato industry 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.

26/12/2018
Marketing and presentation of your carrot crop Marketing and presentation of your carrot crop

As with most commodities, presentation of the product has a disproportionate influence on the price received.

25/12/2018
Other carrot leaf diseases 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

24/12/2018
Know your leaf blight pathogens 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.

21/12/2018
Other carrot problems Other carrot problems

Carrots are not attacked by many pests, apart from eelworm. Nonetheless, there are a few pests that can prove a problem.

20/12/2018
Carrot root diseases 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.

19/12/2018
Eelworms love carrots 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

18/12/2018
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