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    How To Plant Tomatoes
    Tomato management First, put stakes at 1m apart on the bed before planting tomatoes to allow a lot of air movement and plant basal plants around stakes. Dig  a deep hole, place tomato seedling in it and cover upto first bottom leaf and add rock dust with sea weed fertilizer to the plant and stake […]
    Duration: 08:18:00
    How To Grow Potatoes
    Potato management For open field home garden, make deep trenches of 1 metre apart as the deeper the trenches, the more potatoes obtained. Plant potatoes 20-30cm apart with eyes up, add neem tree granules to the potato trenches to protect potatoes and cover 2 inches on trench from bottom and add rock dust to keep […]
    Duration: 07:45:00
    How To Grow Peas and Beans
    Crop management Because peas are short term crops, they are great nitroge fixers in soils together with the beans. Additionally, bean types include french beans and runners or climbers which grow in anticlock wise. Put bean seeds between bean plants and water after planting and to use liquid sea weed on garlic, a farmer should […]
    Duration: 07:15:00
    How To Plant Springtime Green Leafy Veges, How To Make Slug And Snail Traps
    Vegetable growing As a farmer leaves a gap between crop varieties in the same garden, control slugs and snails using yeast trap and pot trap. For yeast trap, make a spoon full of yeast, add 1 spoon of sugar and mix with warm water to activate it while for pot trap, a farmer folds papers […]
    Duration: 05:57:00
    How to Sow Winter Root Crops
    Crop management First, make shallow trenches sow seeds directly and cover with soils and water after planting and dont apply ferlizer. For kohlrab root crop, make holes and plant seedlings and finally cover the garden with net to prevent intruders.
    Duration: 05:46:00
    Harvesting and Storing Pumpkins, Sweet Potato (Kumara) & Borlotti Beans
    Crop storage First, a farmer should deep pumpkins in the solution making sure also the stem is covered with solution and also bake the stems to allow longtime  storage. Similarly, store pumpkins in a place with wood shavings or straw which dont allow it to touch the ground and also touching each other. These can […]
    Duration: 06:45:00
    How To Plant Passionfruit And Tamarillos
    crops management Just like other crops, the farmer must make sure that the soil is high in organic matter with a pH 5.5-6.0 and they should grown away from strong wind and frost. Similarly, pruneback the passion fruits every year to  produce new shoots and also appy fertilizer and rock dust on plants after planting […]
    Duration: 02:27:00
    How To Transplant Tomato Seedlings
    Tomato management As a farmer labels after potting sedlings including the variety and date planted, water after potting and when plantng in garden, put stake in ground, give seedling a good dose of calcium and plant seedlings deeper into soils to allow more roots to grow making the seedlings strong.
    Duration: 07:50:00
    How To Sow Tomato Seeds
    crop management As a way of making seed raise mix, a farmer should add fertilizer to the mix and rock dust and mix together and place the the mix in the tray and make rows and label. Labels contain the crop variety and the date planted. Similarly, plant tomato seeds in the rows of the […]
    Duration: 08:10:00
    Saving Tomato Seeds And Pruning A Plum Tree
    Crops mananement As after 4 days of fermentation, remove the upper material using spoon and throw it a way and put the liquid into sieve and rinse seeds and spread seeds on paper in lines and dry for a week out of full sun. Similarly, write the date on the paper, fold it up and […]
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