Growing Your Own Broccoli at Home

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Young broccoli

https://www.ivermectine-kopen.com People who loathe eating cabbage sometimes find it difficult to believe that both broccoli and cauliflower are closely related to the common cabbage! All are members of the brassica family that also includes Brussels sprouts, Chinese cabbage, kale, and perhaps surprisingly, turnips as well. The best known type of broccoli is the sprouting type that produces ...

The Challenge and Rewards of Growing Globe Artichokes

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Artichoke

Absolutely delicious to eat, the globe artichoke is sadly not a favourite in the average home garden. Nevertheless, if you have the space to accommodate a reasonable number of plants, it's definitely worth giving it a try. In fact even if you don't have loads of space, they are such attractive plants, you could grow one ...

Growing Beans at Home

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Dwarf Beans

Dwarf Beans Beans are both delicious and nutritious, and they are easy to grow at home. But there are different types of beans and you need to know the difference both in terms of the crop you can expect and the conditions in which they will thrive. Furthermore, within each bean group you will find a ...

Integrated Control Options for Root Knot Nematodes Part 2

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Following on from Part 1 of this article where we talked about what root knot nematode (RKN) is, the symptoms and some soft options for control, in this article, we look at the rest of the tools that can be used in an integrated control strategy. Crop Rotation with Tolerant Crops Rotate susceptible crops, or crops which ...

Integrated Control Options for Root Knot Nematodes Part 1

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Many gardeners will have seen root knot nematode (Meloidogyne spp.) infection in your crops, especially if you have sandy soils.  It is easily diagnosed as it commonly causes swellings or galls on the roots and other underground parts of your plants which can vary from 1 mm to several centimetres in diameter. These galls detrimentally ...

The Art of Crop Rotation

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Home Veggie Garden

A thriving home veggie garden planted with Group 3 vegetables as well as cucurbits. Pic courtesy oceansart.us It is a proven fact that one type of vegetable cannot be grown in the same field or garden bed year in year out. This is because specific plants suck certain nutrients out of the soil. If you don't ...

Secrets of Growing Sweet Corn Successfully

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Sweet Corn

Beautiful Sweet Corn - ready for picking. Sweet corn, as opposed to big white mealies or maize, is a great crop to grow in your vegetable garden. While they do need to be reasonably widely spaced, even a couple of short rows at the back of your plot can produce gorgeously sweet corn cobs – better ...

How to Grow Vegetables in Containers

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With the difficult weather that many regions have experience over the last year, the prices of many vegetables have hit peaks rarely seen before. This is bad news on the ‘hip pocket’! The good news is that you don’t have to pay these high prices.  You can have a lot of fun growing your own chemical ...