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Nitrogen: the key to high cabbage yield
A shortage of nitrogen is the single most common reason for a cabbage crop not reaching its full yield potential. This applies equally to the quantity applied
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Tips for Growing Tomatos and Growing Tomato Plants
The advent of grow bags has made a great contribution to growing tomatos easily at home, and allows the owner of a small garden to make full use of the main
Start Growing Potatoes – Best Potato Growers Tips
Potatoes are hardly worth growing in a small garden unless you can concentrate on early varieties to provide ‘new’ potatoes or on good-quality unusual varieties
Capsicum diseases
Spotted wilt, which was covered in a previous article, is but one of 17 viruses found in peppers worldwide.
Growing Strawberry Plants – How to Grow Strawberry Wall
If you want something different try a strawberry wall. This is a very efficient way of growing strawberries, particularly in a small garden
Greenhouse production in SA – learning from Europe
It is every vegetable farmer’s dream to produce a higher yield per hectare and have the same yield winter and summer. Jacques Claassen visited an innovative let
Study addresses key challenges in expanding the supply of organic grain in…
The lack of organic education resources, soil fertility and weed challenges along with transition period risk are some of the main hurdles to further expansion
Success with small-scale herb production
Husband-and-wife team, Miki and Cathy Clark, knew nothing about farming when they began their small-scale herb production operation on 1,2ha of land five years
Benefits of vermiculture
David Leslie and his son James use vermiculture to keep their potato, bean, maize and soya crops healthy – and it’s paying off. Gerhard Uys visited them
Technology takes farming to new levels
New technologies used to improve fruit and wine production efficiency, thereby reducing input and other related cost.
Integrated pest management system
Technical manager for the SA subsidiary of ADAMA Agricultural Solutions, integrated pest management is the only sustainable solution to this problem.
Increase wine grape profits with successful mechanisation
Creative use of mechanisation is one of the reasons for his success. Glenneis Kriel spoke to him about his production methods