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    How To Plant The Spinach Family
    Crop management First, plant spinach before putting fetilizers and plant at 30cm apart, add volcanic rock dust to plants and water the garden after planting and fertilizer application. Similarly, pull off affected leaves to control rust and also spray sea weed once a month as pests like birds and slugs affect the plants.
    Duration: 07:59:00
    How To Make New Strawberry Plants Out Of Runners And Plant Tea Bushes
    Strawberry management When intercroped, with tea plants, after 1-2 years when plant can peg new tips shooting can be dried for 24 hours in shade. Green tea is dried and used right a way. Similarly, tea plants like slightly acidi soils, hardy plants planted under shade and they require good drainage of the soils hence […]
    Duration: 07:22:00
    How To Plant Lettuces
    Crop management As a farmer add nitrogen to soil for foliar growth and phosphorous for root growth, he should also add bone powder, wood pellets and volcanic rock dust. Because lettuces have very shallow rooting syatem, mix fertilizer with soils evenly and plant lettuces at 30cm apart and plant crops away from the garden edges […]
    Duration: 08:06:00
    How To Grow Strawberries
    Crop management Unlike for some other crops, prevent water logging in the garden of strawberries and mulch for fruits to rest on them to prevent rotting due to contact with soils. Soak sedlings in see weed solution for 5 minutes to strengthen the roots, chop off flowers from seedlings and plant with crowns above soil […]
    Duration: 07:14:00
    How to Sow Carrot & Parsnip Seeds
    Crop management Because parsnisps take long to matur compared to to carrots, a farmer sows parsnips and carrots by broad casting over the soils or by planting in straight lines and this make thining easy. Plant crops of the edge of the garden and net them to keep dogs and birds out. Similarly, sow onions […]
    Duration: 16:20:00
    Making fermented liquid organic fertilizer by composting
    To make a fermented organic fertilizer, you need molasses, effective microorganisms, and water but the water needs to be pure and free from chlorine because chlorine kills the microorganisms. Among the main solid ingredients that would feed the microbes include bran, soybean meal, and chicken manure. Mixing the ingredients Measure 10 kg of bran and […]
    Duration: 09:49:00
    How to make liquid microbial organic fertilizer
    Microbial solutions can be used as organic fertilizers. To make the microbial solutions, the first ingredient that you need is a potato. It doesn’t matter if the potatoes have already started sprouting or they are still fresh. The potatoes are used as a food source for the microorganisms to multiply. You need 2 small or […]
    Duration: 10:28:00
    How to construct multi storey garden
    Storeyed gardening is a cost-effective farming technology that’s durable and allows someone to cultivate multiple numbers of crops within a small piece of land, especially for people in urban areas. All you need is 1-meter square of land for you to plant a huge variety of vegetables. Storeyed garden construction The technology is easy to […]
    Duration: 14:12:00
    Turning cow dung into compost manure and liquid manure
    The manure can be processed into fertilizer and to do this, the manure is first collected and kept in a pit, covered for 2 weeks. After 2 weeks, the dung is turned into another pit. The whole process until the cow dung is ready for use takes a total of 6 months. Cow dung processing […]
    Duration: 08:24:00
    Here’s Why Mulching Peppers Is Important (+7 Great Mulches To Use) – Pepper Geek
    Mulching is the practice of covering the surface of your garden soil with a layer of material, which can provide various benefits for your plants and soil. Types of mulch Organic Mulch: Organic mulch consists of natural materials that break down over time, adding nutrients to the soil. Examples include newspaper, compost, and black plastic. […]
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