Tomato pests and diseases can be common in your garden. The pests that you need to look out for include aphids, cutworms, leaf miners, army […]
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Nightshade Family: Pruning And Trellising Tomatoes
The tomatoes in your garden will thrive if you pay attention to pruning and trellising the plants. Healthy plants, higher yield. Sometimes the tomato plants […]
Nightshade Family: Growing Tomatoes
During this series we will be looking at growing tomatoes, as well as other members of the nightshade family of vegetables. These include tomatoes, potatoes, […]
Planters For Seed And Seedlings
With your soil prepared you will now think about planters for seed or seedlings. This will enable you to get the seed, or seedlings, into […]
Sprung-Tine Cultivator: The One Pass Implement
Earlier in this series we looked at ploughing, and some smaller implements and machinery used to break up earth. One can achieve much the same […]
What To Look For When Buying Second-Hand Implements
Often, the amount of time that a smallholder uses his or her farm machinery is relatively limited, to in some cases only once or twice […]
How To Prepare Perfect Soil
When preparing your soil for planting, you may deem ploughing unnecessary or inappropriate. In this case, there are other machines that you can use to […]
How To Plough
For most smallholders working with low-power tractors, if the soil to be worked is heavy, after the first rains is a good time to plough. […]
Understand the Basics of Cultivation
The range of activities that can be classified as forming part of cultivation is broad. From hacking away with a hoe at weeds in one’s […]
Using Manure For A Good Harvest
Most smallholders will likely have access to manure of some kind that can be used to help improve their soil quality when planting vegetables. There […]