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    Sowing Carrots and Summer Onions, Hilling up Potatoes and Chitting Kumara
    Crops management A farmer should mulch and water the bed and add manure in growing potato plants. To germinate potatoes, put potting mix in a container and place in potato tubers and cover with more mix and finally, water for germination to take place in 10 days and harvest slips to garden after.
    Duration: 06:33:00
    Planting Blueberries
    Blue berry management As there are 2 types of blue berry, a farmer should ask the type which suits best in his area and these have high requirements. Mulch blue berries and these can take 20 years of fruiting life. Similarly, blue berries are pruned in first 1 or 2 years when they are 6 […]
    Duration: 16:48:00
    How To Grow Ginger At Home
    Ginger management First, soak ginger rhizomes for over night to stimulate growing tips for sprouting and avoid using dried and ragged ones. Good rhizomes will sink and bad ones float. Additionally in a container,  ginger is grown in 20-25cm of soil depth and it grows horizontal sub surafce rhzomes hence fill up the container with […]
    Duration: 21:47:00
    Why Farmers fail in vertical gardening
    During vertical gardening, there are challenges that come along especially when you plant the plants in potting bags and not directly in the soil. Of the challenges you could face for example in tomatoes is the tomatoes being many fruits but of small size. This is caused when the nutrients in the potting bags are […]
    Duration: 12:15:00
    Growing Beets From Seed To Harvest
    Crop management First, beet root need light, airy sandy loam soil mixture that drain well and retain moisture easily as well and also need soil of neutral pH as they are susceptible to alkaline and acidic soils. Dont over fertilize beets as they are direcdtly sown in full sun location at spacing 1cm deep by […]
    Duration: 16:24:00
    Growing Carrots
    Crop management Carrots being cool weather crop and grow in a wide range of temperatures dont fertilize carrots and grow in  sand, loose well drained soils. The warmer the temperature, the faster the seed sprouting and always plant at 0.5 inch or less and mulch for seeds to establish. Similarly, use potting mix when planting […]
    Duration: 12:33:00
    Zucchini Growing Tips
    Crop management Plant zucchnis 2.5cm deep in moist seeding mix 2 months before transplant and plants emerge in a week and true leaves appear a week after germination. Plant zucchinis in a full sun location with moist well drained soils at 2 feet apart and mulch the plant and water as well thoroughly. However, plants […]
    Duration: 03:17:00
    Strawberry Farming
    Strawberry management Being a crop grown in cold regions in open fields and poly houses, strawberry need well drained soils which is sandy-loam with a site that receive adequate sunlight to 8 hours a day. Consider availability of reliable water supply for irrigation purposes and incoporate orgainc atter into soil and choose certified disease free […]
    Duration: 10:58:00
    How to grow cucumbers to produce a lot of fruit in pots
    Primary practices Start by mixing 40%compost and 60%garden soil, thereafter make a hole 1 inch deep, plant 1 seed per hole, 6-8 inches apart. Additionally, water adequately to keep soil moist, and expose the plant to 4-5 hours of sun for photosynthesis. Furthermore, check the soil before watering, reduce watering when seeds establish, and water […]
    Duration: 20:15:00
    Planting Tomatoes – The Complete Guide
    Crop management As hardening off of 2 weeks, put plants in full direct sunlight for 6 hours minimum in a day and always provide good drainage for tomatoes as they are tropical warm climate plants. Plant tomatoes 2 weeks after frost when tempertures are above 50 degrees fahrein height in  rich nutrient soils with high […]
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