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Spacing, competition & yield We sometimes tend to make assumptions about how a crop will react without considering the survival mechanisms inherited from its wild ancestors.
30/06/2018
Watching your cucurbits grow As with any crop, there’s a risk to planting cucurbits and then doing ‘bakkie’ farming – skirting the land with your head half-way out of the driver’s side wind
13/11/2018
Your cucurbits will get viruses Apart from powdery mildew (discussed in last week’s column), viruses are the next challenge that almost every cucurbit grower will face at some stage.
15/11/2018
Getting ready to plant cucurbits Before planting a land to any of the cucurbits, you should kill off all broad-leaved weeds nearby, preferably well beforehand.
10/02/2020
How to grow a three sisters garden A three sisters garden consists of corn, beans and some type of gourd ( squash, pumpkin, melon) that are interplanted
29/08/2017
Get the spacing right with these veggies When planting any pumpkin, marrow, gem or other Cucurbitaceae, it’s important to get the spacing right. Get it wrong, and you could lose 50%
11/12/2018
Learning about cucurbits Cucurbits are a group of plants belonging to the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae). They include pumpkins and squashes (Cucurbita spp), melons (Cucumis melo)
07/07/2018
Bac Son commune has brought Dien pomelo trees to become main crops Bac Son has strongly transformed the area of unstable rice cultivation into seedlings such as bitter melon, pumpkin, melon and so on to gradually increase
12/01/2019
Beating cucurbit viruses Viruses infecting the pumpkin family have always been a major problem. Susceptible crops become almost completely infected late in the season
03/10/2019
Thai farmers on the cash trail with snail slime Giant snails inch across a plate of pumpkin and cucumber in central Thailand, an "organic" diet to tease the prized collagen-rich mucus from the molluscs
28/08/2019