Pests and Diseases of Lettuces

When it comes to cabbage aphids and Integrated Pest Management (IPM), success will depend on the crop being grown, the season and other considerations.

Making hot beds is a form of green house gardening but without the green house.  Frame beds provided with bottom heat will bring crops to maturity long before

More usually associated with dead wood, this distinctive disease can cause die-back on currants, gooseberries, apples and many other woody plant

We have about 200 tomato varieties in South Africa. This fact alone makes the value of the variety list highly questionable.

Truly messing up your compost is hard to do. Throw organic matter in a pile outdoors and it will break down eventually, even if you never look at it again

As we’ve said before, integrated pest management (IPM), or using the natural enemies of crop pests to help control those pests

Imagine harvesting nearly half a ton of tasty, beautiful vegetables from a 15-by-20-foot plot, 100 pounds of tomatoes from just 100 square feet

Although a near-necessity for growing tomatoes, tomato cages can be as fancy, homemade, or as economical as you’d like

When it comes to Integrated Pest Management (IPM), tomatoes have quite a complex array of requirements which will depend on the varieties planted

It’s associated with warm temperatures (28°C-30°C) and prolonged wet periods, or rapidly alternating wet and dry periods.

When trying to predict how a crop will respond to various situations, remember that all cultivated crops originated from wild ancestors growing in competition

Many pests target potatoes but most of these occur very occasionally and are likely to do minimal damage.

Hot weather is unfavourable for carrot germination. Depending on the soil’s condition and structure, it also promotes the growth of soil fungus diseases

Alternative to discharging treated wastewater into waterways is to spray it on land so it does not contribute to antibiotic resistance.

Late blight in potatoes is caused by airborne spores of the Phytophthora infestans fungus. The disease manifests as irregular dark lesions on the stems

Carrots have a very deep root system and a mass of fine feeder roots.

Producing tomatoes in tunnels is highly scientific, expertise-intensive and efficient in terms of area, water, nutrient and resource use.

There’s always a market for baby vegetables, and carrots are no exception. In the past, top-shaped baby carrots were the most popular in the frozen range.

It requires a lot of observation and experience, but Integrated Pest Management (IPM) can be practiced with cabbages.