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Sandy soil: a guide to working with it Vegetable expert Bill Kerr discusses how to get the best out of sandy soil, regardless of what crop you’re growing.
12/12/2019
Other tomato wilts We have already discussed bacterial wilt which sees the leaves and growing tip of an apparently healthy plant hanging due to lack of water.
17/10/2018
Growing Tomatoes: Patio Tomatoes – Growing Outdoor Tomatoes The tomato is probably the heaviest yielding crop per yard of ground that we have in this country, beating even crops like potatoes and onions
11/11/2017
How To Prune Your Fruit Trees Though summer pruning is not harmful to the trees, winter makes things easier. Without the tree’s foliage, you can really see what you are doing.
24/02/2018
How to Grow Your Own Superfoods You know that section in the health food store where two-ounce packages of exotic sounding nuts and berries go for upwards of $20?
24/02/2018
How to Grow Your Own Tomatoes, Part 1: Starting Seeds Indoors How to Grow Your Own Tomatoes, Part 1: Starting Seeds Indoors. Growing tomatoes from seed isn’t hard, but there are a few things to be aware of
26/02/2018
How to Grow Your Own Tomatoes, Part 2: Transplanting There are two things you need to do before you transplant your seedlings: Prepare the soil and something gardeners call hardening off.
26/02/2018
How to Grow Your Own Tomatoes Part 4: Disease Prevention Tomatoes are prone to a laundry list of diseases, including viral, bacterial and fungal assailants. Growers in the eastern half of the continent are almost sure
26/02/2018
How to Grow Your Own Tomatoes, Part 5: Harvesting Within two months of plunking tomato seedlings in the ground, the fruit should be filling out and starting to turn color.
26/02/2018
How to Grow Your Own Tomatoes, Part 6: Saving Seeds If you plan to save seed from more than one variety, be sure to label seeds clearly throughout the process. How to Grow Your Own Tomatoes, Part 6: Saving Seeds
26/02/2018